I'll believe it when POTUS says it. My take: Sabotage of the process.
Posted on 08/19/2025 5:51:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sen. Lindsey Graham told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday that if peace talks between Ukraine and Russia aren’t “moving in the right direction” by the time Congress returns next month, then “Plan B needs to kick in.”
For months, the Republican senator has been pressing President Trump to support a bipartisan sanctions bill that would impose steep tariffs on countries helping fund Russia’s war. On Tuesday morning, following a phone call with Trump, Graham signaled the president may now be willing to back the effort.
“Trump believes that if Putin doesn’t do his part, that he’s going to have to crush his economy. Because you got to mean what you say,” Graham told reporters in South Carolina earlier on Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
As long as Euros keep using Russian oil there will be no “crushing”.
That's what blowing up piplelines and pretending you didn't do it is for.
Linda loves the limelight.
Because President Trump is incapable of sharing his own thoughts (if indeed he thinks this) and therefore needs Lady Graham to do it for him. /sarcasm
Men of South Carolina, please wake up
And what dark spell does Graham hold over the President? At this point, it is bizarre.
As negotiations continue, every group will be “thrown a bone.”
This is Lindsey throwing a bone to hardcore Anti Russia Hawks.
And if, IF, Trump did say what Lindsay is saying, who is he to broadcast it to the media?
Graham needs to keep his mouth shut and let Trump be the President.
I think Graham is jealous.
Putin could care less what Graham has to say.
This fruitcake should SHUT UP.
The Russian arms factory worker:
1. pays his rent in rubles,
2. gets his potatoes, bread, meat, cheese, vegetables and fruit using rubles,
3. pays his electric, Internet and cellphone bills in rubles,
4. pays for his gasoline in rubles,
5. buys his clothes using rubles, etc.
Filling up the back of an SUV or awaiting Amazon deliveries is not part of typical Russian family life.
Common Russian consumer items:
1. apartment
2. potatoes
3. bread
4. meat
5. root vegetables
6. electricity
7. running water
8. dairy products
9. above ground vegetables
10. fruit
11. some heat
12. vodka
13. prescription drugs
14. public transportation (trams, buses, trains)
15. cellphones & service
16. TVs
17. PCs
18. cars
Only the PCs, TVs, cellphones and prescription drugs are mainly import sourced. Except for the cellphone batteries, the electronic things will generally run for years before needing to be replaced. The prescription drugs can be sent in by India and China as aid under the Geneva Convention much like food has to admitted into Gaza by international law. Russia can promise to pay China later for prescription drugs. Russia probably has large rupee balances.
Some of the cars will no longer function if they break down and an imported repair part is no longer available.
Filling up the back of an SUV or awaiting Amazon deliveries is not part of typical Russian family life.
Russian civil servants don’t commonly make over $100,000/year.
What kind of an ass clown is Miss Lindsey, anyway? HOW IS THIS HELPFUL in the midst of PDJT’s peace negotiations?
Trying to help his boy-toy Zyy, it seems.
Putting a 500% tariff on every country that buys Russian energy...will crush only the US economy.
It’s one of the stupidest things I’ve heard come out of DC.
If POTUS Trump is this stupid, he had me fooled for a long time.
“06 Sep, 2024”
“The PAS 5500 lithography systems first appeared in 1991 and continued to evolve throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, when ASML was a promising competitor to leading companies of the time, Japanese Nikon and Canon.”
“they can be used to manufacture quite advanced microchips.”
“Russian rockets now use fewer old components and more new chips produced by Angstrem.”
Primary this loser.
Linda used to watch gay porn to get his kicks.
Now he just goes on MSM and talk about how Trump is going to destroy Russia for him, to get the same effect.
What kind of an ass clown is Miss Lindsey, anyway?
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Your statement is both accurate and polite at the same time.
If course this treasonous prick would talk to AP.
I'll believe it when POTUS says it. My take: Sabotage of the process.
Thanks, blabbermouth Linda! Now GFYS!
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