War monger Lindsey Graham wants to shoot down Russian planes in international airspace. “If you ever get near another US asset flying in international waters, your airplane will be shot down,” he said, addressing the Kremlin’s leaders on Fox News.
Like many neocons and his late puppet master – John McCain – Miss Lindsey never saw a war he didn’t want the US to be part of. A former former JAG in the Air Force Reserve, the closest Graham came to danger was the night he tried to hit on a brunette’s husband at an officers club dance.
This is not the first time Graham has proposed that the US ramp up hostilities against the Kremlin. Last year, he called on Russians to kill Vladimir Putin to help end the Ukraine war.
“Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?” Graham tweeted on March 4, 2022. Brutus was the historical Roman figure who killed Julius Caesar, while Claus von Stauffenberg was a German officer known for his failed assassination of Adolf Hitler.
Yet Graham is hardly the only member of congress that wants to give Zelenskyy a blank check and is willing to fight a nuclear war over Ukraine. And, the elite and the media fully support giving Ukraine everything Zelenskyy wants. The mainstream media has acted as Zelenskyy’s propaganda arm.
Fortunately, responses from potential Republican presidential candidates to a questionnaire from Tucker Carlson indicates that the serious Republican candidates want a negotiated peace and do not consider the Ukraine one of this country’s most important issues.
All of the three parties to the war — Moscow, Kyiv and Washington — are incentivized to continue the bloodshed. Putin views the outcome of the war as existential. Russia, which has seen its buffer zone with NATO reduced to as little as 100 miles after the Baltic states joined NATO in 2004, has drawn a red line over Ukraine. Russia’s capacity and manpower outmatch Ukraine’s, enabling Putin to continue a war of attrition.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cannot back down either. His entire persona is wrapped up in the image of a wartime president and freedom fighter. Losing his status of international hero by capitulating to Putin would mean that Zelenskyy could no longer secure U.S. and European cash, on which his country is fully dependent for survival as Ukraine’s industrial capacity and agricultural base are destroyed.
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President Biden must start thinking strategically, and fast. The Russia-Ukraine war is a local conflict between countries the U.S. does not have alliances with. He must consider the larger ramifications of his decision to become deeply involved in it and consequences that threaten the world order that has protected and enhanced U.S. national and economic security for decades.
The war in the Ukraine has already taken it’s toll on the United States:
- We have given Ukraine >$115-billion at a time when our nation’s debt exceeds $30-trillion
- The US has depleted its arsenal by sending so many weapons to the Ukraine and making us vulnerable
- Biden has restarted the cold war and made Russia and China much closer allies
- Our government has demonstrated that it cares more about Ukrainians than Americans. We have covered pensions for Ukrainians, but Biden still has not found time to visit East Palestine
Hat tip Fox News, cf.org and insider.com