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Putin’s two-fer

Vladimir Putin tells his foreign minister to publicly recommend tit for tat by expelling U.S. diplomats. Putin then conspicuously declines to do so, scoring a double: He looks magnanimous, and Donald Trump owes him one more.

Anthony M. Paul,

Coral Gables

This story was originally published January 5, 2017 at 9:20 PM with the headline "Putin’s two-fer."

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