Hey! Is Graham going to sanction the USA?
Posted on 07/08/2025 4:43:04 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Tuesday that the Senate will move “soon” on a “tough” Russia sanctions bill that will also penalize the Kremlin’s top energy recipients, China and India.
“President @realDonaldTrump is spot on about the games Putin is playing,” Graham said in a Tuesday post on X. “The Senate will move soon on a tough sanctions bill – not only against Russia – but also against countries like China and India that buy Russian energy products that finance Putin’s war machine. The Senate bill has a presidential waiver to give President Trump maximum leverage.”
“When it comes to Putin and those who support his war machine, it is time to change the game,” added the South Carolina Republican, a prominent supporter of Ukraine in the Senate.
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The measure would impose a 500 percent tariff on imports from any nation that purchases Russian uranium, gas and oil. Graham has been in constant contact with Trump about the bill and lawmakers in the upper chamber are waiting for the president’s approval to bring it to the floor.
Graham is proposing a carveout to his bill to spare countries who still import Russian gas, but have supported Ukraine in their three-year war with the Kremlin’s military.
“A lot of countries still buy Russian oil and gas but less. Some European countries still have relationships with Russia, but they’ve been very helpful to Ukraine. So I want to carve them out,” Graham told reporters last month.
“There’s some of our allies who’ve really helped Ukraine but would be affected by the bill, they’ve earned their way to get a carveout,” the senator added. “Those who have helped Ukraine, meaningfully, will get a carveout. In other words you’ll incentivize people to help Ukraine.”
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The WarPig speaks.
How about the Senate takes up Homelessness among Veterans?
Maybe jailing a few Meat Processing CEOs?
Or, I don’t know, limiting Extra-Constitutional Magistrate Judges?
Yer almost done Ms Lindsey, why not go out with a Bang?
lindsey is a good friend of president trump, they just played golf together.
I support president trump all the way, best president to have if there’s a war.
Hey! Is Graham going to sanction the USA?
The Russians have bought the necessary machine tools and integrated circuit making equipment already.
Hitler fought a war for over five years without oil export revenue.
> How about the Senate takes up Homelessness among Veterans? <
Folks like Sen. Graham think it’s absolutely our business to be involved in every place, everywhere. While neglecting pressing problems at home.
Where have I seen this movie before? Oh, yes. Now I remember. It’s exactly how the old Roman Empire operated. And we all know how they turned out.
Good. These two nations are currently up to no good.
There is an article I read today about Russian drones operating 10 kilometers from the front lines.
I’m not sure if it was in the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, but it is well worth reading by both DC politicians and military commanders.
Implementing sanctions hurt us more than Russia would be political SUICIDE for the Republican party.
There is NO national interest in Ukraine and certainly not one worthy damaging our economy for.
“...will also penalize the Kremlin’s top energy recipients, China and India.”
Hard to imagine the leader of either country willing to send their economy into the STONE AGE - only European leaders are that stupid.
So I think Graham will be a bit disappointed here.
i don’t care about ukraine as much as i want as many north Koreans dead as possible. win win
If you’re for Putin you’re against President Trump.
“Stay tuned “.
Examining China and India oil and gas flows. Both are very large importers.
China oil consumption 16.375 million barrels/day
They actually do have some domestic production — 4.264 mbpd
India oil consumption 5.6 million bpd
Domestic production 735K bpd
So you see the magnitude of import then require.
The world as a whole — production 96.8 mbpd, consumption 100.7 million bpd The differential is oil enroute.
The point being, there is nowhere else for India and China to get oil. You can sanction and tariff them all you want, but they have to eat, and oil moves food to mouths. OPEC+ has been announcing increases in production, but only a few hundred K bpd, and you can see above how much they must import.
Bottom line, if you literally starve China, they have no choice but to seize oil for someone else — perhaps Japan. This has always been the classic scenario for oil scarcity in China.
Lindsey Graham loves war and war rhymes with whore.
Putin wants the threat from Ukraine stopped. Trump has allowed and supported Netanyahu’s elimination of threats to Israel from Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
He surely understands Mr. Putin’s need to eliminate the Ukrainian threat to Russia.
The trickle of Patriot missiles won’t stop Russia unless there’s something dirty going on under the table we don’t know about.
So is the US. We have no business being in Ukraine or funding and arming a war there.
How about DOJ take a deep dive into Linda’s finances at this point? I really loathe that warmongering, grifting finook. Ugh.
Military Summary Channel
https://youtu.be/BOYC34IuzuY
Situation on the ground.
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