The day before
yesterday, South Carolina GOP Senator Lindsey Graham caused a firestorm when he
tweeted the following.
The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.
You would be doing your country - and the world - a great service.
The only people who can fix this are the Russian people.
Easy to say, hard to do.
Unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness you need to step up to the plate.
Brutus was the Roman magistrate who conspired with Roman Senator Cassius to assassinate Roman dictator Julius Caesar in 44 BC, while Stauffenberg led a failed assassination attempt against Hitler in 1944.
Yesterday,
Graham doubled
down on his comments on Fox and Friends.
'I'm hoping someone
in Russia will understand he is destroying Russia and you need to take
this guy out back any means possible’, adding that Russia needed an 'Eliot
Ness or a Wyatt Earp'.
Ness was a reference
to the prohibition agent who took down mobster Al Capone. Earp was the lawman
from the old west who led the gunfight at the O.K. Corral resulting in the
deaths of three outlaws.
Thus in just two
days, Graham likened Putin to Hitler, Capone, Caesar, and notorious outlaw Ike
Clanton.
So what do we make of
all this?
First for the
situation in Ukraine.
It has been nine days
since military operations began in Ukraine. There are harrowing scenes of
mayhem and destruction due to the relentless barrage of shelling and fierce
skirmishes. The port
city of Kherson and the Chernobyl nuclear plant in northern
Ukraine are
under Russian control.
The UK, the US,
Canada, and the EU have condemned Russia’s military operations, imposed
sanctions on Russia, and have removed key Russian banks from the interbank transaction system, SWIFT which prevents
financial transactions beyond Russia.
The US has
announced fresh
sanctions on Russian oligarchs and Putin
himself to increase the isolation.
Russian sports teams
have been suspended from international competitions. Differently-abled Russian athletes cannot participate in the 2022 Winter
Paralympics.
Companies such as
Toyota, Honda, and Volkswagen have suspended the sales of cars in
Russia. Film releases have been canceled. Russian
vodka has been boycotted. Russian
Cats are banned from any international competition.
In response, Putin
signed a decree on special
economic measures against the west.
Russian citizens cannot transfer money abroad. Social media and foreign news
media have been banned. Journalists can be jailed for up to 15 years for publishing
‘fake news.’
The temperatures are rapidly
reaching boiling point. Every syllable has consequences, hence the utmost
caution must be practiced.
Graham's call for a
coup by assassination is not only reckless but also dangerous. Such
utterances during turbulent times validate conspiracy theories and amplify paranoia.
Individuals plagued with paranoia often react irrationally when gratuitously
provoked. What makes it infinitely more perilous is the nuclear arms in
play.
If Graham is hoping
to divide and conquer by causing a rift within the Kremlin or their allies, his
statements will have the opposite results. Governments, citizens, and allies usually
unite against an adversary calling for their leader to be murdered. If a
rogue agent attempts any such action now, the US will be blamed.
If the US aspires to
be on higher moral ground, openly calling for a murder won't achieve
it, it will legitimize an identical action from the adversary.
An assassination or even an attempt usually causes instability which
is most undesirable for nuclear powers.
Graham should be
pushing for direct dialogue with Putin and for energy independence in the US to
reduce dependency on Russian energy.
Instead, Graham is
adding fuel to the fire by urging others to place themselves in peril.
This isn’t the first
time he has done so.
In 2002, Graham voted
for the Iraq Resolution, which authorized military
action against Iraq. He suggested the U.S. remain
in Afghanistan
permanently, claiming that this would benefit
both nations. In 2010, Graham called for a preemptive
military strike to weaken the Iranian
regime. Graham supported the NATO-led military intervention in Libya. In March
2015, Graham supported the Saudi
Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
In December 2016,
Graham alongside John McCain called for a proxy war against Russia by arming
Ukrainian insurgency groups.
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In October 2018,
following the Tongo
Tongo ambush, which killed four U.S.
soldiers, Graham
exclaimed, "I didn't know there were a
thousand troops in Niger." In November 2019, Graham blocked a Senate
resolution to officially recognize
the Armenian genocide. Also in 2019,
Graham wanted the US to attack
Venezuela.
Graham consistently attacked
Trump for attempting to remove troops from Syria
and Afghanistan. Following Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan,
Graham proclaimed the US ‘will
go back into Afghanistan.
Graham is also fond
of calling for assassinations. In 2010, he called for the killing
of Gadhafi, recently he encouraged Israel to assassinate more Iranian scientists, currently, the
target is Putin.
Now for Graham’s record
in the armed forces.
Graham served as an
attorney during the six and a half years he spent on active duty in the Air
Force, he then joined the Air Force Reserve.
During
his first decade in Congress, the Air Force promoted Graham twice despite little
or no work. He was afforded special
treatment as a lawmaker, granting him the privileges of rank.
Graham also embellished his service in the reserve
in a
campaign video and claimed to be a veteran of the Persian Gulf War, despite never being
deployed there.
Graham has never been
part of any active combat, the kind he calls for as a politician
In Washington,
Graham’s recent record is mixed.
On the bogus Russia
Collusion narrative, Graham played the part of an outraged Trump supporter who was going to get to the bottom of who concocted the hoax
during Senate Hearings and on Fox News. But no action was ever taken to hold
anybody accountable for concocting the hoax.
Graham took Trump’s
endorsement to win back his seat in South
Carolina in 2020. When the January 6th protests went overboard
Graham was the first to shun Trump with "count
me out. Enough is enough." adding Biden
was a “legitimate president”. Graham allegedly told
police to shoot January 6 protestors who
entered the Capitol building. When President Trump pledged to pardon January 6th protesters
who have been persecuted, Graham
was among to slam the idea.
It's ironic that
Graham invoked Brutus since he is the one who frequently his allies and his
voters in the back.
Last December,
Graham was among the Republican senators who voted to resettle Afghan refugees in the U.S. During the middle of last month, when the Senate had a
chance to end the Democrat-led vaccine mandate, Graham was in London focused on
Ukraine and holding Putin accountable.
Graham is the kind
who sends your loved ones in pointless foreign war while he and his family
flourish in comfort and safety. He receives campaign
contributions from defense
contractors and pushes for the purchase
of their
arms.
Graham represents the
worst of the Washington establishment. The corrupt, self-serving,
self-promoting, and double-speaking kind who places their voters last.
This is an unrepentant offender for whom reform seems impossible. His
doubling down calls for assassination despite condemnation proves that. If
pressure mounts, he may pretend to care but nobody should be deceived.
Perhaps it is time
for an honest, conservative, and upright challenge who cares first for the
interests of his voters, to take out Lindsey Graham, strictly electorally,
obviously.
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