Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) visited the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Monday and praised the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk Oblast, calling the offensive “beautiful.”
Speaking to reporters alongside Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Graham said, “What do I think about Kursk? Bold, brilliant, beautiful. Keep it up.”
The White House has insisted it was unaware of Ukraine’s plans to launch the ground incursion into Kursk but is still strongly backing the invasion as the US is allowing Ukraine to use US-provided weapons.
Graham added that his message to the Biden administration is to give Ukraine the “weapons they need to win the war they can’t afford to lose.” While supporting the invasion of Kursk, the administration still says it doesn’t support “long-range” Ukrainian strikes inside Russia, although it hasn’t defined how deep into Russia is too far.
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During their visit to Kyiv, Graham and Blumenthal met with Zelensky, who is asking for the US to support “long-range” attacks.
“We discussed what exactly is needed to bring this war to its end, and to bring it to a just end,” Zelensky said of his meeting with the US senators. “I explained in detail our need for long-range capabilities.”
The US-backed incursion into Kursk marks a significant escalation of the proxy war and risks a major Russian response. Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed the attack on Ukraine’s Western backers, saying, “The West is waging war against us using Ukrainians.”
And, Lindsey's reputation has been described as 'fabulous and fierce' re. sending Americans in harms way for his AIPAC and MIC donations.
“Lindsey Graham is the stupidest person in the senate”~Jeffrey Sachs
Cosigned.
Which should be in no way taken as a cheap shot. He really does face some fierce competition there.
Thanks for making me smile ED!
A proxy war is defined as "a war fought between groups of smaller countries that each represent the interests of other larger powers, and may have help and support from these."
Ukraine is fighting for survival, not US interests. The US would benefit, but that is not the reason for the war.
Ukraine is fighting for survival of it's pro-American Nazi regime.
As opposed to the REAL, Russian Nazis?
https://www.mmanews.com/news/russian-mma-fighter-neo-nazi/
I don't think there is any question regarding Ukraine embracing Nazi doctrine and being fully complicit with their pogroms. This history, past and present, is clear and documented.
W.r.t. Russian neo-Nazis, I'm sure there are probably more Nazis and neo-Nazis on US soil than in Russia.
In fact, the US imported thousands of Nazis after WWII and granted them asylum as so they could further develop the 'German Space Program' on US soil. Remember, that's why the US got to the moon.
Worth mentioning that the neo-Nazis in Ukraine are in positions of power and authority, while the ones in any other country one cares to name are just disaffected nobodys with a garbage ideology.
Dear Politčar: I am sorry for participating in Operation paperclip. I am sorry for bring Werner von Braun to help build our rockets. I am disgisted by Nazism and everything it stands for, and I will make sure no future generation knows about it.
P.S. For your Slavic name why don't you support your Brothers-In-Arms??
P.S.S It was only because of the "č"
It's concerning that you state, "I am disgisted (sic) by Nazism and everything it stands for and I will make sure no future generation knows about it"
How interesting that you feel that way.
Sarcasm
of corse future generations should learn about nazi crimes and genocide
"I don't think there is any question regarding Ukraine embracing Nazi doctrine and being fully complicit with their pogroms."
You just spew BS and expect everyone to believe you? C'mon, man!
"W.r.t. Russian neo-Nazis, I'm sure there are probably more Nazis and neo-Nazis on US soil than in Russia."
What makes you the expert? You just FEEL like you MIGHT be correct? Childish.
And yes, I do know the history regarding the US protecting Nazis after WWII.
Real
If there are a few stragglers , they do not compare to the Azoff Battalion and the utter inhumanity of the Ukraine military. Now for the removal of the utter laughable Zelensky…
There were Neo-Nazis in the Azov regiment but most were wiped out in Mariupol. So, the Russians can go home now?
Now, for the removal of the utterly incompetent Putin…
Neutrality will get the Russians to step over the border. The border might have to have new lines now for that to happen.
Yeltsin is dead and there aren't any in the wings. Putin isn't the problem. He'd be replaced with an equal "hardliner" at best.
"There were Neo-Nazis in the Azov regiment but most were wiped out in Mariupol."
De-Nazification works. Now for the rest of them.
The Russian Nazis you mean, right? Absolutely!
Fun fact to all you uneducated people out there:
In the Russian language nowadays, "Nazi" or "fascist" basically means anyone opposed to Russia or Russian Expansion. So basically, if someone says ukraine needs to be de-Nazified, actually read it as "de anto-Russified."
Besides Hitler invading the Soviets during WW2, the Russians have little to no emnity for Nazism or Nazi ideals. For example, in a group of Russian propaganda groups printed in Russia since the early 2000's, a fictious Stalin often works with Hitler to destroy the UK and USA. Just to show who the real Nazis are.
And by the way, Putins party is far right and ultranationalist/militaristic, so Hitler would probably look and say
"Ooooh, look at ze Deutsche puppet staate ve hav made in Russland!"
There are different definitions of the concept of proxy war. You can find one that fits exactly, find one that fits somewhat and find another that doesn't. It's a bit the same with the concept of terrorism. These are lables that are used to describe categories in the political sciences. Which is not a science, but that is neither here nor there. The lables or concepts are informed by histories and policies and very contingent on contemporary tastes.
The Ukrainian proxy war the US is waging against Russia is to a great extent predicated on or informed by the history of the US proxy war waged against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan by US support of the Afghan mujehedeen.
The basic strategy is trying for Russia to bleed itself dry fighting a proxy force the US is arming.
While not the entire story, this grand strategy framework has been set out in a 2019 RAND report in some detail:
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html
Netanyahu would probably put it more succinctly: Ukrainians are US's useful idiots.
Ukrainians are anything but idiots. The Americans are paranoid idiots by falling for Putin’s nuclear bluff.
https://ukrainetoday.org/russian-angry-baboeska-speaks-out-but-have-a-very-big-laugh/
Real
Слава України?
Героям слава!
Добре! Ха Ха!
Once again, the US Senate's premier light-stepper aims to stomp down as hard as he can on the faces of fellow humans whom he chooses for death sentences. Actually, those humans are not his fellows by any reasonable definition; and Graham is debatably human. There is not a person on Earth safe from his blood lust. Will this disgusting repeat-offender against mankind ever be outed for what–and all–that he really is?
The people of South Carolina are not too bright as they vote him in again and again and again…
Graham is such a patsy, that he would be better off in a dress. I bet all of the mirrors in his house are broken! You are right, he is the prime definition of what human garbage is..
Whenever I see nitwit US politicians like Lindsey and Blumenthal I'm reminded of our former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who once asked of General Colin Powell:
'What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?'
If you are referring to Max Blumenthal, you better get your head screwed on better.
Max Blumenthal is not a US politician. Try to keep up.
T. Paine might mean Max Boot, or Michael Bloomberg ?
Paine's not the sharpest knife on the keyboard. It's one thing to struggle with simple abbreviations, but…
Senator Richard Blumenthal. War hawk, neocon, all-around creep.
You mean
Richard Blumenthal
“is an American lawyer and politician who is the senior United States senator from Connecticut, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he is one of the wealthiest members of the Senate,[3] with a net worth over $100 million.” Wikipedia
Wars make them richer.
How did this moron become a member of congress?
When Harris becomes the president, it'll be even more funny.
Why? She'll be par for the course.
And the bonus is that she'll be unburdened by the past so she can focus on the school buses.
M'kay?
real
$$$$$$$$$$$.
Morons elected him.
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
H. L. Mencken
Because bigger morons voted for him.
This Ukraine/NATO offensive in Kursk direction is even more stupid than their summer 2023 offensive in Azov sea direction. The scale of the offensive is not so great but the negative consequences for Ukraine and for The West would be much worse. One needs not to be Nostradamus to predict it.
Oh, no! Now the Ukes have gone and done it! They've "poked the bear"! The Russians are REALYY gonna start fighting now!
(Maybe right after they find a way to hydrate their troops?)
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-troops-water-shortages-ukraine-stagnant-puddles-1938384
Yup! Just like the Russians in March '22 were just preparing for the REAL army to come in! The RUsskies who marched on Kyiv were bad! THE REAL RUSSIAN ARMY LIES IN WAIT TO LURCH AT ITS PREY
STOP yapping my friend
How did I knew that you are ukr neo-nazi internet wimp?
By your particular stench.
Russians are the Nazis if you didn’t have the acuity to know
"Beautiful" failure… However, the Russians aren't going to change anything up over this. What they might do is use the move to justify a move on Sumy in order to distract the Ukrainians from the Donbass further and annihilate a few dozen more Ukrainian brigades, in essence, repeating what they did around Kharkiv.
Its not failing what news do you listen to?
And Sumy is BORDERING Kurs'k
The Russians previously moved a mechanized brigade to the Kurs'k Sumy Oblast' border area and when the Uks moved their brigades to Sumy the Russians thought it was for defense and not for an attack so they already should have a brigades worth of troops fighting it plus whatever troops they called in
And no Ukrainian brigades were "annihlated" in Kharkiv, the Russkies only advanced for about 2 or 3 days before the situation stabilized and it turned into normal positional warfare
As of yet, the Kurs'k offensive is still in maneuver and not stalling yet
Edit: "Dozens" of brigades? Each brigade is like 7k troops
Maybe the world will get lucky and Graham will be collateral damage of a Iskander missile…
Psychopath Graham is one of the most evil Americans in recent history. Here he is in 2016 encouraging Ukrainians to start a war they were sure to lose badly.
https://youtu.be/gnrO9_UBubc?t=236
This story is about how neocons were digging the grave for Ukraine.
Nb Democrat Amy Klobisher.
More proof an ignoramus sits in the Senate seat from South Carolina.
Only an idiot could find something about war "beautiful"…
Another Warpig of the power.
As long as MIC oligarchy remains the main political force in U.S. warpigs will represent American people on the highest level.
The beautiful thing is Russia getting pushed back, war is always horrible
And he calls himself Christian? Another hypocrite.
Not necessarily; some estimates put the number of Christian faith variants at around 44,000 worldwide (I tend to go with a number closer to 35,000), with an estimated ~9,000 different denominations in the US alone.
So unfortunately there is no "true Christian"; anyone who professes to be one IS one, and with tens of thousands of versions of the faith, some are guaranteed to justify and support that which others abhor.
40,000 various Protestant sects all claiming to be the true Church. The former Catholic Monk Martin Luther would have been horrified by what his reform movement led to.
Hey man – he had a dream.
"Christians United for Israel" is one of the most pro-zionist, christian fascist groups on the planet.
i hate christian fascists
they make christians look bad
Christian fascist is oxymoron
Who thinks Ukraine designed this assault, or that Ukrainian Soldiers are operating the military weapons? The USA/Israel needs to keep Russia busy at this time, so they won't bother backing Iran, if Iran decides to strike Israel. We are witnessing a full out attack by the USA/Israel/NATO, against those fighting Zionist. Russia/Iran have stronger moral values than those supporting the immoral "Democracies". We all need to stop listening to the labels Politicians give to themselves and others, because it means nothing. Is Graham a believer in Democracy? Is the US really fighting for "Freedoms" for all people? Words mean nothing, the actions of all concerned show us that the so called "Democracies" are now TYRANTS, are committing GENOCIDE and have lost all MORALS. Vote OUT the Rep/Dem, who are now the Traitors of our Constitution.
You totally rock G-Woman!!!
So does Antiwar.com !
This is the best place to make peace happen!
Peace is not made by surrendering to the Russians
Me
Senator Graham and all those who support this proxy war, sacrificing the Ukraine, have blood on their hands! I would like to see just ONE Congressperson give ONE REAL justification for what's been done in the Ukraine this past decade! It's un-American and its CRIMINAL!
Note: https://webtv.un.org/en/schedule Aug 13 Today
4.00 pm SECURITY COUNCIL
UN Security Council Arria-formula meeting "Crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the nationalist battalions"
Because Russia DOESN'T systematically torture prisoners and bomb out places where they know civillians live?
But yeah, Ukraine fired 1 shell at a few apartment blocks, so lets hold a UNSC meeting to discuss their horrid crimes
Graham is a PUTZ!
He's sick, a very sick creature, on many levels.
I think Uke and Europe are thinking about this as a "Tet" kind of event: terrible tactically in that there will be huge losses, but great strategically because Russians will decide they can't afford the war any more.
The problem is, the reason the US could leave Vietnam and Russia leave Afghanistan was that they were far away from the heartland and retreat was inconsequential to real security. Ukraine is vital to Russian security and they know it … so I think there will be no quit until it's done.
Everyone keeps ignoring that humongous elephant in the room. Wait until Russia's ass is against the wall is all I'm going to keep on saying. The very idea that they are going to pick up and leave is asinine to put it mildly. Especially NOW.
At this rate and given the sh*tball level of Ukrainian "strategy", I expect Kiev to mount a major invasion of the Russian Federation on or just after the winter's first snowfall.
Yes, Ukraine is vital to Russian security, and the Russians know it.
Which is why, if they’re smart, they’ll find a way out of the fight instead of continuing to press what, so far, hasn’t been very good luck.
I imagine he's (Putin) been looking for a soft spot for a while, but the USUK managers of Zel are making it pretty hard to find. At this point, he may need to go all the way to Odessa and a change of gov in Ukraine.
Lindsey Graham is a sick ghoul who delights in the death of others. Most chicken hawks do.
Lady Lindsey sure knows how to spend the taxpayer money on his multiple trips to Ukraine
Graham cracker of death
Ritter can't travel to Russia, but this useless bag of detritus can go where he pleases.
To borrow from a great 1989 sci-fi : "Senator Graham looks and he sees Russians. He sees hate and fear. You have to look with better eyes than that."
He's seriously damaged goods.
Apocalypse Now!
"The White House insisted it was unaware of Ukraine’s plans to launch the ground incursion into Kursk." The Kursk operation was almost certainly 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 by the US. We don't know who blew up the NordStream pipelines, either.
What are the chances that any foreign leader will ever believe anything uttered by this administration?
Well, to be fair, if anything was discussed after 4PM, Biden probably didn’t know.
hahah
Yes, of course the White House did not know…..
But we do know who blew up Nordstream; the Russians! Because the White House intel said so right after it happened.
I bet it was those Russians that made the plans for Kursk as well.
How about them WMDs in Iraq 20 years ago? Heard Iraq is a much better and stable place now; the Shia and Sunnis skipping merrily along, hand in hand.
Afghanistan is also the new jewel of south Asia.
God bless you America!
Stop being a contrarian
Daniel McAdams from yesterday's Liberty Report:
“Ukraine has invaded part of Russia. … They are using U.S. bombs, U.S. military equipment, U.S. guns and I watched a couple clips over the weekend where you could hear the troops speaking English. So they’re U.S. mercenaries. So imagine the scenario where Americans are using American weapons in Russia and killing Russians. That is a major crisis. And yet no only are they not pouring water on this fire, they are pouring gasoline… “Pentagon Refuses to Rule Out Strikes On Moscow in Shocking Exchange On Ukraine’s Incursion Into Kursk”. “
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/08/12/while-biden-sleeps-us-accelerates-transit-of-military-assets-for-iran-israel-war/