TIT FOR TAT: Russia retaliates against Britain by expelling diplomats over ex-spy’s poisoning.

Related: History:

After the RB-47 incident in which the USSR shot down an unarmed US reconnaissance airplane over international waters, President Eisenhower is said to have ordered the assassination of an equivalent number of Soviet military troops of similar rank to those killed in the RB-47. By “is said to” I mean that this authorization is widely rumored, and I have a number of reasons (none of them official and none of my reasons subject to the official secrets laws) to believe this is true. It was neither officially admitted or denied by Eisenhower, who refused to discuss the matter. He neither asserted nor denied a right to to take this action.

In last night’s open thread, a commenter wonders if Theresa May will do something similar.