This past Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) put out a strong remark as part of an interview concerning Russian President Vladimir Putin while speaking on the possibility of the war in Ukraine spreading and evolving into an all-out world war.
“Well, it’s not going to be World War III – this is all a bluff,” Graham stated as part of an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” “Putin knows that no one wins a nuclear exchange. If he ordered a strike on the United States, a general would shoot him in the head.”
These statements from Graham crop up after he has repeatedly sounded the call for the people of Russia to take matters into their own hands and assassinate Putin for the betterment of their own country.
“I’m begging you in Russia … you need to step up to the plate and take this guy out,” Graham stated as part a Fox News appearance back at the first of the month, and he went on to add in a later interview, “You need to take this guy out, by any means possible.”
Graham also put forth the same sentiment via his Twitter account, stating that the Russian people needed to carry out this assassination in order to dodge being subjected to “abject pverty.”
“Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? 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,” stated Graham in a tweet. “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.”
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.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 4, 2022
Graham ended up catching flak even from members of his own party, such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), because of these statements.
“This is an exceptionally bad idea,” exclaimed Cruz. “Use massive economic sanctions; BOYCOTT Russian oil & gas; and provide military aid so the Ukrainians can defend themselves. But we should not be calling for the assassination of heads of state.”
“While we are all praying for peace & for the people of Ukraine, this is irresponsible, dangerous & unhinged,” stated Greene in a tweet. “We need leaders with calm minds & steady wisdom. Not blood thirsty warmongering politicians trying to tweet tough by demanding assassinations. Americans don’t want war.”