Members of the European Union have joined the United Kingdom in charting tougher paths than the United States toward Russia and Israel.

Let’s start with Russia.

On Tuesday, the EU and the U.K. introduced a new raft of sanctions targeting Russian individuals, energy tanker ships, and financial institutions. The sanctions follow a phone call between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. European leaders had hoped that Putin’s continued refusal to accept Trump’s demand for a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine would lead to U.S. support for new sanctions on Moscow. Instead, Putin further manipulated Trump into the delusion that he seeks a realistic peace accord.

The European powers evidently decided they could no longer wait for Trump to lose faith in Putin. Timed alongside a U.K.-EU trade deal that reverses some trade........

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