Posted on 03/04/2022 9:37:56 AM PST by blam
Russia on March 4 described a U.S. senator’s call to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin as irresponsible.
Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador to the United States, said the remarks were “irresponsible and dangerous.”
“The degree of Russophobia and hatred in the USA towards Russia is off the charts. It’s unbelievable that a country’s senator preaching his moral values as a ‘guiding star’ to all mankind could afford a call on terrorism as a way to achieve Washington’s goals on the international arena,” Antonov said in a statement released by the Russian embassy.
He also said that “It’s getting scary for the fate of the United States, which has such irresponsible and unprofessional politicians at the helm,” and demanded an official explanation and a decisive condemnation of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) comments.
Graham, a former Air Force lawyer, wrote on Twitter Thursday wondering if there was a “Brutus” in Russia, referring to Marcus Brutus, a Roman politician who assassinated Julius Caesar in ancient Rome.
“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,” Graham added.
“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.”
Graham also made similar comments during an appearance on Fox News and reiterated his position on Friday morning while on “Fox & Friends.”
“I’m convinced it’s a one man problem surrounded by a few people,” Graham said.
The war could also end if Putin is charged with a war crime, Graham said, before calling for a person like an “Elliot Ness or a Wyatt Earp” to take action.
Ness helped take down gangster Al Capone while Earp was one of the law enforcement officers who killed outlaws in the 1800s.
On Putin’s orders, Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Russian officials claimed the move was necessary to “demilitarize and denazify” the neighboring country, a claim widely derided by officials from other nations.
“Russia’s attack on Ukraine is a brutal, unprovoked invasion of a democracy, an ally, and a sovereign nation. It must not be allowed to stand, for it will create a precedent that unravels the international order that has kept the peace in Europe for nearly 80 years,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said on the Senate floor in Washington on March 1.
I’m good with asking a loyal Russian to kill the dictator.
They need to not put the briefcase bomb under the table for this despot.
Lindsey Graham should call up his jihadist friends in Syria if he really wants to kill Putin.
If I tweeted about him the way he tweets about Putin I would be in trouble.
After threatening the whole world with Nuclear war if Putin isn’t allowed to subjugate the people of Ukraine, Russia now takes the high road over Lindsey Graham’s comments threating one person.
Graham out to know what being a Brutus is all about. He is one. I suppose there is a pact among the senators, that all should participate in taking out Caesar so no one of them would be responsible.
I’m sure plenty of them wanted to assassinate Hitler.
Flimsey Grahamnesty should have been removed after his THIRD amnesty vote.
“I’m sure plenty of them wanted to assassinate Hitler.”
Exactly.
He’s right about irresponsible and unprofessional politicians at the helm.
Not a fan of Linda but a dead Putin is a good thing.
Graham, a former Air Force lawyer, wrote on Twitter Thursday wondering if there was a “Brutus” in Russia, referring to Marcus Brutus, a Roman politician who assassinated Julius Caesar in ancient Rome.
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...and that didn’t work out so well. The Republic did not get restored. In instead ushered in the age of emperors ruling over Rome.
Et tu, Lind-se?
You can’t expect Flimsey to know history.
Americans have swallowed a truly radical, collectivist and globalist ideology. One of its chief idiots in DC pops off a particularly stupid comment based on that - and people cheer.
God bless you all when reality starts to hit.
“It’s getting scary for the fate of the United States, which has such irresponsible and unprofessional politicians at the helm,”
He’s now wrong about this.
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Conservatives are puddy in the hands of the same politicians that destroyed your businesses, force vaccinated your family and friends risking their lives, fired your family and friends from their jobs, closed your children’s schools, censored your political speech, stole a Presidency, actively destroying your country’s economy. Our government wants us either enslaved or dead but mention war with Russia and we will back them to the ends of the earth.
Auto-correct fail?
Not a fan of Linda but a dead Putin is a good thing.
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It’s not the kind of thing an office holder should be saying though. It also takes some serious arrogance and/or stupidity, because if you want to set the precedent that assassinating leaders is acceptable again, it might turn around and bit you
Yep. Should be “not wrong”.
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