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Lindsey Graham Loses His Mind Over Ron DeSantis’ Ukraine Position

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If you had any doubts that Ron DeSantis is living rent-free in the minds of many, the reaction to his recent statement on Ukraine should quell them. The Florida governor has been taking incoming from all sides because he had the audacity to say that becoming “further entangled” in the conflict by sending long-range weaponry doesn’t constitute a “vital” national interest.

Few stopped to ponder the nuance of his position, which did not call to suspend all aid or abandon Ukraine. Instead, the Ukraine-flag-wearing brigade jumped into action to let it be known that DeSantis was a “Putin puppet.” Meanwhile, Sen. Lindsey Graham went to the old well of bringing up Nazi Germany.

You know, because every single conflict is just like Hitler’s conquest of Europe, and anyone who isn’t enthusiastic about any of those conflicts must be Neville Chamberlain (The New York Times).

Before we get to Graham, though, here’s a comment by Liz Cheney from the same article.

“DeSantis is wrong and seems to have forgotten the lessons of Ronald Reagan,” said former Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who led the House select committee investigating Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

This drives me insane because it’s such a ridiculously dishonest rewriting of history. Ronald Reagan was not a died-in-the-wool neoconservative who went full-bore into every conflict he faced, directly or indirectly. In fact, the neoconservative wing spent much time during Reagan’s two terms criticizing the president as an appeaser. Michael Brendan Doughty recently chronicled some examples, including headlines like “The Neo-Conservative Anguish Over Reagan’s Foreign Policy” and “Appeasement By Any Other Name.”

Liz Cheney is as far away from Reagan’s more thought-out, smart foreign policy as is possible to be. That she and other neoconservatives now want to claim the mantle of Reagan is laughable.

But I digress, let’s talk about Graham’s rantings.

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said in an interview on Tuesday morning that he “could not disagree more” with Mr. DeSantis’s characterization of the stakes attached to the defense of Ukraine.

“The Neville Chamberlain approach to aggression never ends well,” said Mr. Graham, comparing Mr. DeSantis to the British prime minister who appeased Adolf Hitler. “This is an attempt by Putin to rewrite the map of Europe by force of arms.”

I am begging Republican hawks to realize that history didn’t start and end in 1938. For all the flack Chamberlain catches, there was essentially no chance that the broader European powers were going to go to war at that point in time to stop Hitler’s early encroachment. The United States itself was firmly neutral and had no intentions of getting involved. Bringing up Chamberlain like a drunk parrot every time someone offers any nuance about any conflict is lazy and pathetic.

Unfortunately, that pretty much describes Graham perfectly. He has a foreign policy record so bad that he rivals Joe Biden’s five decades of abject failure. Graham has never met a conflict he didn’t support not only fighting but escalating to absurd levels.

What makes that worse, though, is his complete lack of attrition over those failures. He’s never once sought to reevaluate his position on the Iraq War, or the even less defensible actions in Syria and Libya. The latter two conflicts have seen nearly a million people die so that Libya could become a modern-day slave hub and Syria could be left in ruins fighting US-backed Islamists that the people don’t even support.

Graham has never shown an ounce of introspection about his immoral, deadly decisions. He was gung-ho for “regime change” no matter what because he’s a simpleton who treats foreign policy like a scrap in a schoolyard. Back in the real world, there are unintended consequences to every move made, and if those aren’t properly analyzed, lots of innocent people die for very little gain.

In other words, Graham can kindly go jump in a lake with his moralizing over Ukraine. DeSantis did not call to allow Russia to take over the Eastern European nation. All he did was suggest that the current conflict, which has devolved into a dispute of regions fought over since 2014 was not a vital national interest, and he’s right. At some point, the United States must decide what the end game is because that end game is not likely to result in Ukraine retaking Crimea.

Lastly, I can’t help but notice Graham’s total silence about Donald Trump’s even more isolationist position on Ukraine. Could that be because Graham endorsed Trump a few months ago for the 2024 presidential nomination? If so, that sure makes the South Carolina senator seem like an opportunistic hypocrite, does it not?

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Senate Republicans wants pro-2A rulings codified into law

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The Second Amendment shouldn’t be a partisan thing. It’s a right enshrined in our Constitution, one lawmakers from both parties swear to support and defend upon taking office.

However, reality has a funny way of working out differently than it should.

As a result, Republicans tend to support the Second Amendment while Democrats tend to be the ones eager to upend it.

It’s not a universal thing–there are pro-gun Democrats and anti-gun Republicans, after all–but, by and large, that’s how it works out, anyway.

And now a couple of Republicans are taking steps to defend the Second Amendment just a bit more.

Senate Republicans on Thursday introduced legislation to nationally codify the right of Americans to both own guns and use them for self-defense outside the home.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said the legislation is intended to protect court rulings in two key gun rights cases by writing them into law.

Those cases are Washington, D.C. v. Heller and New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. The Heller case found that Americans have an individual right to bear arms irrespective of participation in a militia. The Bruen case held that Americans have the right to carry firearms outside their homes.

“There’s nothing in the Second Amendment about ‘You can own a gun in your home and nowhere else,’” Graham said in a news conference, according to Fox News. “(Liberals) want to change that law, and if they get control of the Supreme Court these cases will change.

“This is a concerted effort to attack the fundamentals of the Second Amendment as part of an effort to maintain control of the Senate, take back the House and win the White House,” Graham said. “To conservatives, this is a wake-up call. We need you. Understand what’s going on here.”

Now, let’s start by me saying I like it. I like where their head is at on this.

With that said, let’s also be realistic. Absolutely nothing is going to happen.

For one thing, the Senate isn’t Republican-controlled. That means there’s absolutely no chance of this even coming up for a vote, much less passing if it did.

Sure, the House would likely vote for it, but that means nothing in and of itself.

The upside here is that it doesn’t matter. Supreme Court decisions ultimately carry enough force on their own that we don’t need laws saying the same thing. Not right now, anyway. Further, even if the law is passed, an anti-gun Supreme Court could arguably overturn those laws, so I don’t really see what this would truly accomplish.

Yet if it would do something I can’t help but wonder why do it now.

The Heller decision was over a decade ago. The Bruen decision wasn’t necessarily needed before any GOP-controlled Congress–you know, like the one we had a few years ago–could have passed all of this as federal law. They didn’t. It wasn’t even up for discussion.

So while I like where their head is on this, I wonder where it was a few years back when they could have actually done something.

Lindsey Graham Urges U.S. to ‘Start Shooting Russian Planes Down’

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During an appearance on Hannity, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-NC) appeared to call on the U.S. military to start “shooting Russian planes down,” a move that would risk pushing the west into a full-blown conflict with Russia.

Graham made the remarks following reports that two Russian Su-27 aircraft shot down an unmanned U.S. drone over the Black Sea. The drone was “conducting routine operations in international airspace” when it was shot down, U.S. Air Force Gen. James Hecker said in a statement.

“Well, we should hold them accountable and say that, ‘If you ever get near another U.S. asset flying in international waters, your airplane will be shot down,’” said Graham. “What would Ronald Reagan do right now? He would start shooting Russian planes down if they were threatening our assets. American foreign policy is in freefall.”

“All I can tell you is that on multiple fronts, we’re in a dangerous situation,” he continued. “Weakness creates provocation. They know they can get away with it.”

Graham also criticized Biden’s handling of the conflict, describing him as “a deer in the headlights” who risks escalating the situation into a global conflict.

“If you don’t change your game and up your game, we’re going to have World War III,” he told Biden.

Russia’s ambassador has blamed Washington for the incident. “We view this incident as a provocation,” Ambassador Anatoly Antonov told reporters on Wednesday. “What would be the reaction of the United States if you see such a Russian drone very close to, for example, San Francisco or New York? ‘For me, it’s clear, for you as well.”

The country’s Defense Ministry, meanwhile, claims that the drone crashed after “sharp maneuvering,” explaining that the drone was flying toward its airspace with its transponder turned off before Russian fighters were ordered to investigate.

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Lindsey Graham Urges U.S. to ‘Start Shooting Russian Planes Down’

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During an appearance on Hannity, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-NC) appeared to call on the U.S. military to start “shooting Russian planes down,” a move that would risk pushing the west into a full-blown conflict with Russia.

Graham made the remarks following reports that two Russian Su-27 aircraft shot down an unmanned U.S. drone over the Black Sea. The drone was “conducting routine operations in international airspace” when it was shot down, U.S. Air Force Gen. James Hecker said in a statement.

“Well, we should hold them accountable and say that, ‘If you ever get near another U.S. asset flying in international waters, your airplane will be shot down,’” said Graham. “What would Ronald Reagan do right now? He would start shooting Russian planes down if they were threatening our assets. American foreign policy is in freefall.”

“All I can tell you is that on multiple fronts, we’re in a dangerous situation,” he continued. “Weakness creates provocation. They know they can get away with it.”

Graham also criticized Biden’s handling of the conflict, describing him as “a deer in the headlights” who risks escalating the situation into a global conflict.

“If you don’t change your game and up your game, we’re going to have World War III,” he told Biden.

Russia’s ambassador has blamed Washington for the incident. “We view this incident as a provocation,” Ambassador Anatoly Antonov told reporters on Wednesday. “What would be the reaction of the United States if you see such a Russian drone very close to, for example, San Francisco or New York? ‘For me, it’s clear, for you as well.”

The country’s Defense Ministry, meanwhile, claims that the drone crashed after “sharp maneuvering,” explaining that the drone was flying toward its airspace with its transponder turned off before Russian fighters were ordered to investigate.

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