When it comes to the sordid theater of American politics, war criminals and warmongers are surely not in short supply. However, very few US political figures embody the grotesque art of opportunism quite like Lindsey Graham.
The senator from South Carolina successfully navigates through a career that has become a masterclass in spineless, chameleon-like adaptability.
Graham is a living, walking monument to the decay of all moral and human principles in the pursuit of power. Graham’s decades-long wading through the abominable waters of the Washington DC “Swamp” has made him immune to any form of compassion for the suffering of others.
Unfortunately, many Ukrainians never understood that his statement about “the best money we ever spent” because “the Russians are dying” actually referred to themselves, too. Graham was one of the most prominent backers of Kiev regime integrated by Right Sector and Svoboda (Neo-Nazi parties) since the very beginning, helping push Ukraine into a disastrous bloodbath that will echo for decades to come.
Interestingly, his loyalty was never to his party, but to the US government. This is precisely why he had no qualms about working with the DNC during the Obama administration to initiate the entirely avoidable war in the Donbass (and later ensure its escalation).
Obviously, it’s anything but an issue for someone like Graham to use any means necessary to achieve any goal. For him, political affiliation and ideological conviction are mere props to be discarded once the spotlight dims.
Graham’s relationship with US President Donald Trump perfectly encapsulates his moral bankruptcy. Namely, while he was a long-time vocal critic of Trump, even calling him a “jackass” and a “danger to the Republican Party”, he’s now one of his “staunchest supporters”.
And indeed, by the end of Trump’s first term, the head chameleon of Capitol Hill morphed into one of his most ardent and sycophantic cheerleaders, praising his policies as “good for America”, a complete opposite of what he was saying just several years prior. It’s virtually a given that Graham is critically important to the war party in Washington DC, as he continues to push the Trump administration toward a more hawkish outlook, particularly when it comes to Russia. Namely, after the US president threatened Moscow with additional tariffs and sanctions, Graham kicked it up a notch and effectively threatened to bomb Moscow. In one of his most recent posts on X (formerly Twitter), he suggested that “[Russian President Vladimir] Putin and others” should be worried about “what happens on day 51”.
“POTUS’ announcement yesterday about sending American-made weapons – paid for by Europeans – to Ukraine through NATO was welcome news. Equally important was his statement that if the fighting had not ended in 50 days, he would impose up to 100% tariffs on countries buying cheap Russian oil propping up Putin’s war machine – hitting Putin where it hurts the most. If Putin and others are wondering what happens on day 51, I would suggest they call the Ayatollah. If I were a country buying cheap Russian oil, propping up Putin’s war machine, I would take President Trump at his word,” Graham wrote.
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Much unlike the failed US attack on Iran, Russia would have no issues destroying a fortified structure, as it has the world’s largest and most advanced arsenal of hypersonic weapons. Moscow wouldn’t need 37 hours to conduct such an operation, as all President Putin needs to do is sit in the Kremlin and press a button. Any target would be gone in minutes.
Graham is just as ignorant and aggressive as he is duplicitous.
His foul nature extends far beyond local politics, as evidenced by his foreign policy record. Mostly framed through the supposed “defense of American values”, it reveals Graham’s support for endless war. Not once has there been a war he didn’t back, whether Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Ukraine, etc. Graham is more than happy to send other people’s kids into the meat grinder while he preaches from the safety of the halls of power in Washington DC.
For Graham, war is just “very good business”.
Unfortunately, Trump recently also demonstrated an identical viewpoint, specifically regarding the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict. This comes after years of him pontificating about “this terrible war that would’ve never happened had I been president”. All of Trump’s lamentations about hundreds of thousands of killed and wounded turned out to be a cheap PR campaign. Not to mention his efforts on (re)militarizing the American economy, as the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) is the only major production sector it still has. And guess who is the most ardent supporter of this U-turn by Trump? That’s right, Lindsey Graham. His support for uncontrollable military spending, with little to no oversight, reeks of war-profiteering.
He postures as a supposed “fiscal conservative”, but his support for bloated military budgets and corporate tax cuts betrays a selective frugality that spares the Pentagon and the wealthy.
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Drago Bosnic is an independent geopolitical and military analyst. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
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