Russian officials have condemned Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for calling the US funding of Ukraine the “best money we’ve ever spent” after noting Russians are dying in the conflict.
Graham made the comments during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Friday. A video released by the head of Ukraine’s presidential office showed Graham say the “Russians are dying” and then cut to a different angle where the senator said it’s the “best money we’ve ever spent.”
It’s not clear from the video if Graham said anything between the two quotes, but the senator has made extremely provocative statements throughout the war. He has called for the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin and has said the US should start shooting down Russian planes, an action that could spark World War III.
Responding to Graham’s comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “It is difficult to imagine a greater shame for a country than having such senators.” Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council and former president, called Graham an “old fool.”
Graham was asked by Reuters to reply to Medvedev’s comments. “Mr. Medvedev, if you want Russians to stop dying in Ukraine, withdraw. Stop the invasion. Stop the war crimes. The truth is that you and Putin could care less about Russian soldiers,” he said.
Graham also appeared on Fox News on Sunday and called for the US to send Ukraine whatever it wants, including longer-range weapons and widely-banned cluster munitions.
If it’s such a great investment, Lindsey Graham should put his own money all in.
I bet he does how are Lockheed shares doing
They keep pushing that crap and they might live to see a world that says the same about Americans.
A great example of an useful idiot. Project Ukraine is about hated Russia led by Putin, a man who trully buried communist era that shocked Russia into technological era and ideological straightjacket. Russia’s exit from that straightjacket is not good news to old American revolutionary admirers of Trotsky ideology. Project Ukraine has a greater meaning to social engineers of our time. A synchronised script is being replayed over and over in well behaved media. And politicians not understanding how useful they are — just go along with the script.
The problem all creators of ideologies face is the clash between their plans for ordering the world and the messy reality. Trying to steer it into ideological formulas will not work. But as always, much harm will be done in the process.
Those American revolutionary admirers of Trotsky ideology are, of course, the Straussian neocons. They pull all the strings of both the Congress and the POTUS. It was indeed their hatred for Russia that gave us Project Ukraine. As always, they wage war by way of deception. Their ultimate goal is the end of the USA as we know it and the beginning of God only knows what.
Neoconservative is an evil philosophy.
But other than a few tendrils into the bureaucracy, it has almost zero control of policy. It’s a marginal intellectual school that gloms its weird theories onto a more general hawkishness.
I would guess that the PNAC folks and the toxic trio of Sullivan, Blinken, and Nuland would disagree with you.
So far as I can tell, here’s Sullivan’s neoconservative portfolio:
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Different kind of hawk.
Blinken, a little closer, but not really. Nuland, on the other hand, is maried to a PNAC co-founder.
If you’re looking for neoconservatism, PNAC is a good indicator, as is the American Enterprise Institute (which was taken over by neocons after “former” Trotskyites Jean Kirkpatrick, Paul Wolfowitz, and Joshua Muravchik defected from the Schachtmanites to the Scoop Jackson wing of the Democratic Party to the Reagan GOP).
The neoconservatives certainly did a good job of embedding themselves in the bureaucracy and fellow traveling with other kinds of hawks, but not all hawks are neocons.
Nice comment, Thomas. Sounds like a nice article outline. I would like to read your take on those warmongering evil parasites starting from WWI through the present. It’s like the study of parasites. They are disgusting creatures but it’s nice to learn why and how they’re killing us? Thanks for your consideration.
The neoconservatives are a post-WW2 phenomenon. As Trotskyism broke up, many Trotskyites drifted into other “mainstream” political schools, generally in the academic/polemic, later the bureaucratic, areas.
The connecting thread between Trotskyism and modern neoconservativesm is Trotsky’s “permanent revolution,” which by the early 2000s had become the Bush-era “global democratic revolution.” Basically once Stalin was gone they went from anti-Stalinist to anti-communist (which fit well into the 1950s American political consensus), and once communism was gone they went from anti-communist to anti-Russian (and of course, starting in their early days, flocked to Zionism).
They’re an interesting and negative school, and influential to some degree. But they don’t explain, command, or control general hawkishness among politicians. That was around before they existed and will be around long after they’re forgotten. It’s something they boost and use, not something unique to them.
Not exclusively focusing on neocons or neolibs. Pat Buchanan opened my eyes to how warmongers like Churchill (or any US President) can ignite wars that most people in his own country didn’t want. After Pat, I felt others neglected the subject. More the why than the how, those characters work relentlessly like parasites poisoning and killing their own hosts from within. They do all that while hailed as heroes. Perhaps you could shed more lighting? I like your white paper approach and views on different “regimes.”
Well, the primary function of the state — all states, everywhere — is to transfer wealth and power from the productive class to the political class.
In the US, ever since World War 2, the primary mechanism for doing that has been the Military-Industrial Complex. And you have to have lots of myths — everything from the domino theory to Saddam’s WMDs to every army supply clerk being the love child of Audie Murphy and Mother Teresa — to sell the whole idea.
Absolutely. It’s also interesting that you mentioned “Audie Murphy” specifically. Many ex-military old timers mentioned him to me as one of the reasons they joined. Anyway, thanks for considering.
Nuland is flat out evil. She is also no friend of the EU. Not after her, “f*ck the EU” comment.
…Ignore.
Linda Graham is everything still wrong with the GOP represented in one sleazy politician.
Graham is a bloodthirsty POS .. I look forward to the day that he joins his butt-buddy McCain in Hell.
Lady Lindsey changes direction on issues from day to day depending on which way the political wind is blowing. However, one issue where Lindsey is as true as night following day is his support of the Military Offense Industry.
You say Lindsey Graham I see the female lead in a Tennessee Williams play!
Ugly broad…
Lady Lindsey laid his eggs yet again…!
The best money US can spend is to put this thug in a coffin and bury him six feet under…!
Graham spells out the ugly truth, for which his voters keep electing him. The truth is those ugly, repugnant, disgusting, and unhinged genocidal ideas underline the base of our “exceptionalism.” Even Frankenstein couldn’t have morphed such into “moral superiority.” Yet, here we are. It’s nothing short of a miracle. For doubters, I included a reference from your own library. (Sarcasm alert)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
I won’t quibble on your point but if you don’t know, wikicrapedia is so looked down upon that to even to cite it in a college paper will garner you a failing grade.
LOL. I only use it when I want to throw mud in certain faces and rub it in under specific circumstances.
What I find is the “sources” that they site can be a good starting point for research but the only thing worse than a Wikicrapedia citation was a one from a newspaper unless it’s a interview (I used a interview of a TWA executive in a marketing study but made sure it would be OK because I had dropped the group I was in because the silly Bosnian girl used a USA Todayarticle despite my warning and my withdrawal where upon the professor very directly told her and the group he was not kidding about sourcing). I got a B on the project because A were only for groups (working together was part of the grade which I missed by not being part of a group, whereas I believe my old group got a (mercy)C…stupid kids…lol.
But the “best” starting point source for foreign demographic information and a study of individual nations for is a CIA publication. You just have to be cognizant that there’s bias in it as with everything.
Don’t blame us. I live in SC and we have been trying to vote him out in primaries for years. GOP keeps ramming him down our throats.
Why sarcasm? It just sounds like the truth to me.
Graham’s DNA is a dead end
Internet yahoos get to say stuff like that. US Senators probably should keep it a little more dignified.
Before telling other people how to end “their” conflicts, Graham should spend some time ending all the ones we are involved in, and that he fully supports and supported, even though every single one including the first Iraq war was completely unprovoked through any attack on us. I guess, to use his own words, graham “couldn’t care less about american soldiers, or innocent civilians, dying”. Medvedev has Graham 100% right, he’s an Old Fool.
Should be “could NOT care less”.