Lady Lindsey Graham Shamelessly Mocks Ukrainians in Kyiv
And pays homage to the all-knowing and wise Trump
The dress in the image is the one that Catherine the Great wore at her coronation. It can be viewed at a fascinating museum in the Kremlin. Lady Lindsey, the senior senator from the historically questionably loyal state of South Carolina, would like “fabs” all dolled up in this dress. I am sure he relishes an opportunity to slip down into the Kremlin’s underbelly and this little number before passing.
Warning, Herr Senator, those high-heeled shoes are little more than blocks of wood adorned with jewels and fabric. It is said that women back “in the day” would have to ice their feet down for hours after an evening of dancing and looking coy.
Lindsey Graham, the closeted senator from South Carolina — I only emphasize this because of his rabid anti-LGBTQ positions — was in Kyiv yesterday lecturing President Zelensky about the need for Ukraine to sacrifice a bit more than it already has. Ukraine has a law that frees men under 27 from being conscripted to fight in the war. The law was put in place to let young men finish college and participate in raising young children before their time to go to war comes. Fighting against a country that is three times as big and places no value on human life, Ukraine was trying to protect some part of its future.
Graham, who, until Trump became the nominee for the Republican Party, was one of the biggest proponents for sending military aid to Ukraine. Last week, he voted against sending more aid to Ukraine until a “lend-lease” type program could be established.
But this week, Graham voted repeatedly against sending $60 billion in aid to that nation as well as against other military funds for Israel and U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific. The longtime hawk dramatically announced on the Senate floor that he also would no longer be attending the Munich Security Conference — an annual pilgrimage made by world leaders to discuss global security concerns that’s been a mainstay of his schedule.
“I talked to President Trump today, and he’s dead set against this package,” Graham said on the Senate floor on Sunday, a day after the former president said at a rally that he would let the Russians do “whatever the hell they want” to NATO allies that did not spend enough on defense. “He thinks that we should make packages like this a loan, not a gift,” Graham said (Bows to Trump on Ukraine).
Trump, making every effort he can to ensure Putin wins in Ukraine — or at least forces Ukraine into a situation where it can’t but accept peace on the Kremlin’s terms — is now trying to link continued aid to Ukraine to a demand that Kyiv pay the U.S. back for every bullet sent. The lunacy of this approach is similar to charging people in restaurants for the glasses used to hold their drinks. “If you don’t pay for the glass, we will pour your Coke all over the table, chairs, and floor.” The “small amount” of money we send to Ukraine to indirectly dismantle the Russian army, to be cold and calculating, is a great deal with the United States. Without sending our own troops into the fray and for a song and dance to the U.S. taxpayer, 90 percent of Russia’s pre-war fighting capabilities have been destroyed.
Graham, whose emotional speech against Trump on January 7th on the Senate floor created for him an exit from the chaos and pro-Putin lawlessness, has reversed his words to the world. On January 7th, he said, “Count me out.” Ms. Lindsey is now in the “Count me in” column, and with that, he throws his support behind Putin’s totalitarian regime and its war of genocide against Ukraine.
Standing in Kyiv, a city chewed up and mauled by Russian hate and racism, Graham, a man who gets winded just watching other people walk, callously told President Zelensky and the people of Ukraine: “This is your war, not ours. You need to die more if you want to win it.” (I paraphrased.)
Volodymyr Zelensky should have blindfolded Graham at that moment and sent him to the front lines of this war.
In the way that many Russians struggle to understand why so many of their friends, colleagues, and neighbors buy into the bullshit and lies of Putin, my brain aches as I try to fathom how Republicans can so openly support Vladimir Putin and Russia against not just Ukraine but the interests of the United States.
Trump’s presidency served to empower North Korea, China, Iran, Turkey, and Russia, and now the simple fact that he continues to breathe air on this planet, cowardly and ball-less Republicans help him further his agenda for destroying America.
When Putin fires that nuke, they will blame Biden and the Democrats; they always blame us because they are incapable of accepting responsibility for their actions and words. It will be all of us — not just Republicans — who will suffer this horrific end.
What is it these dummies don’t understand?