Posted on 05/27/2025 12:43:10 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that there’s a “new sheriff in town” and that the Senate is prepared to act regardless of the next steps the Russian leader chooses to take.
In a pair of X posts and in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Tuesday, Graham said Putin’s dramatic escalation in military strikes over the weekend and his two-hour phone call with President Trump last week reflect the “same ol’, same ol’ from Putin’s Russia.”
“Escalate to de-escalate,” Graham said in a post on X, naming Putin’s first strategy, before naming Putin’s second: “Drag it out, hoping others lose interest.”
“There’s a new sheriff in town,” Graham continued. “The old playbook won’t work this time.”
Graham praised Trump’s efforts to “bring Ukraine and Russia together to achieve a just and honorable peace, ensuring global stability,” in a Journal op-ed, adding, “Yet peace requires willing partners.”
“While Ukraine has made clear it is ready for such an end, Russia has made more excuses than the market can bear,” Graham continued.
He noted Trump has asked Putin to provide a term sheet with his requirements for a ceasefire, to create a path toward peace.
“Depending on how Russia responds, we will know which course to take,” Graham said.
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Oh no
Not a 17th round of “crippling” sanctions
Bone crushing.
“There’s a new sheriff in town,”
Who’s that?
Tell your Linda that The Putin isn’t impressed by threats from light-in-the loafers fags.
Linda knows a lot about “bone crushing” - no-handed.
Your Medvedev is a silly drunk. No one takes him seriously.
The feel I get out of Europe and even Trump a little is panic
Russia going to make a huge push very soon and short of putting Troops on the ground nothing the west can do about it
Is Neocon Marco getting his way?
Putin and Medvedev are doubling down on stupid today.
Linda Graham….I guess
Blazing Saddles comes to mind, with the sheriff holding his own gun to his head
We don’t need any comments from the Zee-Nut gallery.
Tell Medvedev to go home. He’s drunk.
The Congress can do very little on the international front.
Even if they are deluded enough to think they can get 2/3 of both houses...against POTUS.
“Russia going to make a huge push very soon and short of putting Troops on the ground nothing the west can do about it”
Correct.
And no way is POTUS going to start a direct war with Russia. Not over Ukraine. No way.
Oh linda. You so crazy.
Churchill was a drunk war hero.
Medvedev is a typical drunk Russian.
So what?
Zee’s a typical gay cokehead puppet.
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