Summary
Sen. Lindsey Graham warned that halting U.S. military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine could be “worse than Afghanistan.”
He urged continued support until a ceasefire is reached and announced plans for sanctions on Russia’s banking and energy sectors.
The Trump administration paused aid after a heated Oval Office meeting where Trump and JD Vance clashed with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. Russia escalated attacks following the fallout.
U.S. and Ukrainian officials will meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss a minerals deal and ceasefire, while Trump seeks further concessions from Ukraine.
Oh hey look he found one of his vertebrae.
Hey buddy, wanna find that fucking backbone during confirmation hearings?
Lindsey Graham has always and will always stand for the military industrial complex and is consistently hawkish. He’s shaking in his little meemaw’s booties because a cessation of aid means a drop in contractor spending.
Trump thinks he fixed afghanistan.
And every US president since Bush thought, that they were fixing Afghanistan. And it let nowhere, except killing a lot of people and wasting a lot of tax payer money, aka. enriching the MIC buddies of the Republican and Democrat party.
Pulling out of Afghanistan was reasonable. The US should have learned since Vietnam, that they are not fixing anything with invading other countries and forcing a regime change. However they also don’t want to fix anything. They want to destabilize and destroy, to prevent regions from emerging as economic and strategic competitors and to enrich their MIC buddies.
Also Vietnam was not a war fought primarily against North Vietnam, it was fought against the civilian resistance against the French/US installed colonial regime in South Vietnam.
No they claimed they had a plan. The orange turd thinks he really fixed it. The US should have learned something from Vietnam but none of that stuff you are talking about.
Key bit: “ he urged support until a ceasefire is reached….”
Anyone remember what happened in Georgia when a ceasefire was reached?
Why go so far? Ukraine had a ceasefire with Russia between 2019 and 2022. There were even working mechanisms to deal with conflicts. Russia showed it can’t be trusted.
The Ukrainian government made no effort to implement Minsk II, had it been implemented then this war would likely not have happened.
Minsk explicity stated that elections come first and then withdrawal. Ukraine wanted Russia to withdraw first before allowing elections in the DPR and LPR which was against the agreement.
Ukraine also had the obligation to uphold linguistic rights to ethnic minorities but violated the Minsk Agreements with the 2019 language law which didn’t outright ban the Russian language but did discriminate against those who did not speak Ukrainian or an EU language.
Zelenskyy initially did campaign on a pro-peace platform but he was quickly pressured by far right militias to do otherwise.
You mean the law regarding Crimea and Donbas that Europe persuaded Ukraine to withdraw a month before Nazi Russia decided to violate the ceasefire? That’s a great example of the ceasefire mechanisms working.
The language law was only approved after the invasion, and given the Ruskyy Mir speech, it’s not surprising Ukraine is not comfortable with promoting Russian inside their borders.
You mean the law regarding Crimea and Donbas that Europe persuaded Ukraine to withdraw a month before
Yes, problem is that despite the 26 January 2022 Normandy Format meeting that resulted in this, Russia received no words about Ukraine’s readiness to swiftly start the implementation of the Minsk agreements.
Zelenskyy himself even admitted that he never intended to implement Minsk.
The language law was only approved after the invasion
What do you mean? It was declared effective on 16 July 2019.
I think you are confusing the 2019 law with the 19 June 2022 restriction on Russian books and music.
Nazi Russia
Is Russia composed of Nazis?
Now you push back?! Fuck you Lindsey. You are a traitorous peace of shit and no one will remember you
Lindsey Graham has flip flopped on Ukraine with dizzying frequency since January 20
I hate Lindsey Graham. I hate him more than the idiots who just blatantly go along with anything Trump says.
He’ll push back just so and contradict Trump a little bit, just enough to make it clear that he is not completely devoid of sense or sanity, but when push comes to shove he’ll fall in line. It’s like he’s trying to make sure history books don’t lump him in with the full blown fascists. The fact that he does seem to comprehend how disastrous everything Trump does is makes the fact he eventually goes along with it more egregious than if he were just another empty suit going along with the cult.
I genuinely don’t know what happens in this man’s head.
He will loudly and sometimes correctly call out Trump. He will say something mostly accurate about how if Trump does XYZ, it will be a bad thing. And often that is right, I might not agree on how he came to the conclusion of why but it is often correct.
And then he just… Votes yes on it? Like is he two faced for the press and congressional floor, or is he genuinely afraid of ever voting no to something Republicans want?
