Speaking as 80-year-old President Joe Biden’s war envoy, 67-year-old Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told the press on a visit to Kiev that funding the Ukraine War was “the best money we’ve every spent.” Graham speaks for the White House, fulfilling a dream of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), one of the Senate’s most vociferous war hawks. Biden’s use of Graham proves that Biden is part of the same anti-communist cabal that drove U.S. foreign policy since the end of WW II. Biden’s liberal base, comprised up of civil rights backers made up of Black, Gay and other minority groups, don’t want to see Biden as a Pentagon man, looking for foreign wars to promote the Military Industrial Complex where there’s much money to be made. Biden’s base ignores his personal commitment to war mongering just like McCain’s cabal that pushed for U.S. military intervention wherever possible.
When it comes to the Ukraine War, Graham speaks for the White House far more than 60-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken or 45-year-old National Security Adviser, spreading the White House pro-war policy, currently taking on the Russian Federation. When Putin invaded Ukraine Feb. 24, 2022, it was after months of ignoring 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warnings about arming Ukraine. Biden armed Ukraine with lethal weapons for months before Putin decided to implement his “technical military operation” attempting to disarm Ukraine, after months of supplying 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky with all the military hardware and advisers necessary to battle the Russian Federation. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov denounced Graham’s comments, especially saying, in effect, it’s the best use of U.S. funds to kill Russians.
Graham has Biden’s blessing when he made trips for the Obaama administration behind enemy lines to promote the proxy war in Syria. Graham and McCain met several times with various Syrian rebel groups, all seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Damacus regime. Obama and Biden spent billions funding the Syrian civil war that killed over 500,000 and displaced 15 million Syrians to neighboring countries and Europe. Obama and Biden’s proxy war in Syria drove so many Syrians to Europe, it practically broke the European Union [EU], creating dissent over refugee quotas. Countries like Germany, who took over a million Syrian refugees, embarrassed EU countries like Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic refusing to take Mideast refugees. Obama and Biden’s Syrian proxy war drove the United Kingdom in 2016 to break out of the European Union.
Obama and Biden watched Putin intervene in Syria to foil the White House attempt to drive al-Assad from power. So, when it comes to the Ukraine War, now consuming unending billions in U.S. tax dollars, Biden attempts to drive Putin from power. Biden said March 26, 2022 in Warsaw, Poland, only a month after the Russian invasion, that Putin must be removed from power. One month later, 69-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told an audience in Ramstein, Germany that the aim of the Ukraine War was to break the Russian military. When it comes to Graham traveling to Kiev to congratulate the government for taking on the Russian Federation, it’s taken seriously in Moscow. Graham likes to spew war propaganda, telling Zelensky about Ukraine’s resistance “our better selves in America,” praising Ukraine for battling the Russian invasion
Graham, who ran for president in 2016, likes to stay in the headlines, no matter how irrelevant he’s become. Telling Zelensky, “there was a time in America that we were this way, fighting to the last person, we were going to be free or die,” comparing Ukraine’s border dispute with Russia to the American Revolution. “Now you are free,” Zelensky told Graham. “And we will be,” promoting the false analogy to the American Revolution. Biden and Zelensky have spewed war propaganda to justify the unending war with Moscow. Telling the public that Ukraine fights to defend the freedom of Europe, Biden and Zelensky spread the same rubbish, accusing Putin of trying to take over all of Europe. Former Soviet satellites like Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia fear that Putin wants to seize their democracies to advance a new Russian fascist agenda in Eastern Europe.
No one in the White House tries to muzzle Graham because Biden shares his McCain-like war hawk mentality. When it comes to Russia, Biden thinks he’s done U.S. national security a service practically breaking off diplomatic relations with Moscow to defend Ukraine. Biden took decades of U.S.-Russian diplomacy and détente and trashed it practically overnight. Peskov said the Russian Federation put out an arrest warrant for Graham. When Graham told Zelensky that “and Russians are dying” as Ukraine defends its freedom, Zelensky was given another propaganda slogan. “Live free or die” has become Zelensky’s claptrap to solicit more cash-and-weapons from the U.S. Russian Security Council President Dmitry Medvedev called Graham an “old fool” for celebrating Russian deaths. With Graham shooting off his mouth, Biden continues to endanger U.S. national security.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
