I agree with Larry--the timeline issue is critical here. Could it be that Lindsey met his end in Kiev? I am not saying it is 100% but the probability is very high that he died in Kiev. Was he an accidental (or maybe deliberate?) victim of Russian strikes at the drone factory he visited or was something else involved in his demise? Who knows. But there is very little doubt that he was a war criminal, warmonger, supporter of terrorism and genocidal maniac. Good riddance.
... he is a chicken hawk, coward, war criminal and a stain on the US in general and South Carolina in particular. But this is a fine example of how one can manipulate the death cult known as "Christian" (it is not Christian) Zionists whose only loyalty is to Israel and not to the US.
Nothing new, really. The US stained itself as a supporter of the genocide by Israel and she will not be able to wash it away--these things stick forever. The gravity of what is happening in Gaza is beyond the perverted minds of such soulless people like Graham or imbecile Ted Cruz, among many--they have no humanity left in them and any invocation of God is not just a blasphemy, but an act of utter evil. South Carolina, you elect this war criminal time after time, so you also bear responsibility.
Basically Kiev regime's press-service stitched together two different contexts. Surprised? No, again, in accordance to Ukie press, Ivan Khurs intel ship rests on the bottom of the Black Sea, while in reality she is undamaged and rests calmly at the Ugolnaya (Coal) Pier in Sevastopol. Well, it doesn't matter, however, for Lindsey--there is a lot what is already in his case and he should really choose his "friends" cautiously. But then again--two of a kind, it was meant to be.
For people who still want to bomb or kill, or harm war criminals like Lindsey Graham, they should understand why Russia is so legalistic--it is the ONLY way to conduct war against the enemy who is desperate. As was expected:
Translation:MOSCOW, May 28 - RIA Novosti.The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to open a criminal case because of the Russophobic statements of US Senator Lindsey Graham, according to the department's Telegram channel.Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed the Main Investigation Department to open a criminal case into the statements of the US senator about the murder of Russians.<...> Investigators of the Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia will give a proper legal assessment to this fact," the publication says. Earlier, US Senator Lindsey Graham, during a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky, said that the United States "has never spent money so successfully," because inas a result of this, the Russians are "dying".
I reiterate--this is the only way to conduct oneself with war criminals such as Graham and his ilk. Legal action is just the start, it is Russian State's due diligence and as I repeat this ad nauseam--you build the case first. The first reaction is proper. Once the warrant on this guy is issued, things may and will proceed in a very interesting direction. Do not forget, this whole situations develops against the background of the United States being guilty of what amounts to crimes against humanity. Brown's Watson Institute has calculated, how many:
So, read the full report and you will understand why most of the world doesn't want to deal with bringers of "democracy" and their stooges. I want to stress--the bankruptcy is not just moral, it is a very tangible economic, military, social and metaphysical one.
Fiona Hill is your typical Ivy league degree mill "Russian Studies" field defective product, as most of them are, but even this ignorant and colorless former bureaucrat admits that the world as we know is pretty much over. And it may come as a surprise to her and others, but it is not "Transatlantic community" which wins, it is Russia. And as any victor, Russia will be deciding what to do with those people in a collapsing combined West who are directly responsible for the events since 9/11 tragedy. This is the only way it works and the United States made a historic mistake by putting itself on the wrong side of history.
Somebody has to explain to this dude, that the US has zero understanding of what "it stood for since the end of WW II", because this WW II was won by somebody else and those were not Americans.
Then, of course, during this meeting of two war criminals and enablers of terrorism, Lindsey went on record by stating that:
“Russians are dying. We have never spent money so well”
Lindsey, being we all know who, has no love lost for Russia, who defines his type as perverts, also, being a lawyer and enabler of genocide and terrorism with his late buddy genocidal maniac and "American hero" John McCain, doesn't understand what modern war is, nor has any clue that he makes a good record of, essentially, getting closer to starting annihilating Russian immigrants in the US or, maybe, starting erecting concentration camps for them, because this is the horizon of imagination of this guy and his buddies in Congress. In the end, he called for assassination of Putin and now, obviously, expanded his horizons.
Russian news agencies properly reported that (in Russian), and reaction was as was expected. But, in the end, it is not for this lawyer who pretends that he knows anything about WW II--he doesn't, because he is as uncultured and uneducated as is the majority in US political "elite"--it is on people of South Carolina who consistently elect this genocidal maniac, and this is very serious. Because it just may happen so, that people of South Carolina who have zero grasp of modern warfare, may have to face a reality of a REAL war due to their Senator being, well, genocidal maniac, who pushes for it and which, naturally, reflects on people of South Carolina. Lindsey, who is of a plain white trash origin, evidently learned nothing in his life and his "colonel" (JAG) rank is worth as much in real war as my expertise in Chaucer. Plus, in the end, somebody take this trailer trash around the world and show him real culture. Together with whores from US media.
I mean the term "domination". Often people, understandably, use the term "domination" as a euphemism for the US foreign policy. What many fail to point out is that "domination"--a supremacy or preeminence over another, exercise of preponderant, governing, or controlling influence, as defined my Merriam Webster is not really US actual trait. The US is always hell-bent on domination but it is miserably inept on exercising it, with the exception over Europe, and if anything else it primarily attempts it without success. We all know how US "domination" of Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan went. The US never achieved any "domination" there. Enter Russia, China and India. Good luck "dominating" those, especially Russia and here US dreams of "domination" become nothing more than wet dreams.
Hence the desperation and loss of any semblance of any class or even legitimacy by the American warmongers such as coward and war criminal Lindsey Graham. Kim Iversen couldn't let it slide.
As most psychopaths, a preferred type for modern American politics, Graham is, indeed, a coward and a thug, and he cannot stand the feeling of slipping "domination" of the US over not just Russia--only moron could believe that Russia will submit--but over the whole global geopolitical realm and Graham hates Vladimir Putin because he is nothing like him. Same goes for the 90% of American political class which is stuffed with different iterations of Lindsey Graham.
How people of South Carolina continue to reelect this terrorism enabler and a thug is a complete mystery to me, but then again--people of Arizona were reelecting a thug John McCain for decades. Here is McCain facing a little bit of reality from the US Marine.
At least late John stood there and took it, Graham would have ran away as he did when approached by Russian TV crew a few years back with request for commentary--he simply ran. So, calling for the head of nuclear superpower to be assassinated is so senatorial in the US today. And the US main-stream media are mum. Of course they are. Are you surprised? I am not. Can you imagine a torment they are going through when seeing their Nazi SOBs in 404 being annihilated on the industrial scale. That's gotta hurt.
The Cold War (2.0, 3.5, whatever) is heating up and a new salvo of "sanctions from hell" (Bob Menendez and Lindsey Graham--both hellish creatures should know best) against Russia will most likely pass.
At this stage there should be no surprise with American legislators being completely situationally unaware, but as the saying goes--if they want to shoot themselves (and their, allegedly, own country) in the foot, let them. It is clear that once dominance of the US Dollar and the system which sustains it is removed, consequences for the United States could be catastrophic. The question is NOT about IF US Dollar will survive as world's reserve currency--this is not even up for a debate--it is WHEN and HOW the departure will happen.
The United States certainly will try to, yet again, leave Russian economy "in tatters", but, something tells me that the result will be the same as it was the last time. Yet again we all will have to endure economic "analysis" from Wall Street "economists" and Russia's political fringes on how Russia will, yet again (I lost count already) be on the brink of collapse, any minute now, in their desperate attempts to obfuscate a simple strategic reality--Russia is a completely economically self-sustainable entity. If one discounts those morons from "economic block" in Russian government (euphemism for useless people), one can sense nowadays some really big shifts happening in Russia's power Olympus. Mikhail Hazin altogether declared that Putin is getting ready for war. I don't know, I though Putin was getting ready for way since, well, let's say 2007 Munich Speech. Of course Russia is getting ready for war, including economic one.
Recent (two days ago) excellent piece by Vladislav Surkov on the fate of Russia and his superb hyperbole about "deep people" of Russia and of Putin's "long state", and especially enjoyable squealing from butt-hurt of all kinds of Russia's liberal and (so called) "nationalist" nobodies as a reaction to this piece, gives a good insight into Kremlin's mode of thinking. Especially when it comes from Kremlin's very notable insider who, actually, does speak for this very "deep" people. So, in the end, one has to ask a question what these deep people of Russia really want and how this new "sanctions from hell" will affect country. I have an answer, I wrote about this answer long time ago. Remember, War and Peace?
A geopolitical Borodino, which was sometimes also compared to the Great Patriotic War's most important battles, from the Battle of Moscow to Stalingrad and Kursk battles, escaped the attention of US "elites" who will now enter the final stages of desperation trying to save the only thing they know--US Dollar financial system--by means of greatly accelerated destruction of it. Once that is gone or greatly degraded (in progress, as I type this)--an inevitable consequence of the US fighting Russia's sovereign debt or, as was expected, switching Russia off from SWIFT--watch out, the main driving force of real economy and military might will reveal itself fully. As well as a true state of American economy which is not capable anymore, bar some few exceptions such as microchip and commercial aerospace (bells are ringing) industries, to produce anything competitive, will be revealed. Energy? Well, even here everything is not what it looks like, hence Germans suddenly exhibiting some signs of rudimentary spine. As per US military, well, I will abstain for now. So, let the party begin...
Evidently
Lindsey Graham and his cronies from the Senate have a very vague understanding
of the meaning of "crushing" when introducing yet another set of
sanction against Russia, whom they also want to define as Sponsor of Terrorism.
I
am sure Russians will be "pleased" to be identified as sponsors of
terrorism by the same ol', same ol' cabal of "legislators" we all got
used to so much in the last 10 years. It is worth, however, repeating who they
are:
Sen. Bob Menendez
(D-N.J.) added that the bill is "the next step in tightening the screws on
the Kremlin."Sens. Cory Gardner
(R-Colo.), Ben Cardin
(D-Md.), John McCain
(R-Ariz.) and Jeanne Shaheen
(D-N.H.) are also supporting the legislation. It comes as lawmakers are
growingly increasingly concerned that Russia will try to interfere in the 2018
elections, where control of Congress hangs in the balance.
I
can only express amusement to these, and other, senators' complete inability to
learn. It is expected from US Congress to be oblivious on most matters
concerning Russia, once the "quality" of US diplomatic corps and
intelligence machine, not to speak of quality of legislators themselves, is
considered, but continuing doing the same and expecting different outcomes?
Isn't it what Albert Einstein defined as insanity? But then again, common sense
and competent people are a rare commodity in both houses.
My
personal attitude to all this circus is to merely quote a very famous movie
director and truly cultured and knowledgeable man, Karen Shakhnazarov, who
recently (a week or so ago) praised economic sanction on Russia, which, as he
insisted "if not for sanctions we (Russia) we wouldn't be doing what we
are doing now. Sanctions are good for us". I completely share
Shakhnazarov's point of view. I also am getting tired from, promoted mostly by
humanities and finances "educated" so called analysts from all kinds
of liberal rags both in Russia and the West, the concept of some Russia's
"dependency" on Western "technology". It is to be expected
from people who never worked a real industrial job in their life and do not
understand what real technology or manufacturing is. Reality, of course, is
quite different: the main issue of Russia in terms of Western
"technology" is not anymore technology per se—that technology is being
developed and introduced in Russia as I type this. The issue is bulk.
It
is not easy to immediately remove, as an example, Siemens' or GE's MRI machines
when Russia only recently, about 3-4 years ago developed own MRI machines and is getting them into
production. Just as a passing fact, Russia has own world-class X-Ray manufacturing.
The other example, of course, is (or rather was) the issue of power plants for
Russian naval ships—a major pain in the butt with mostly Ukrainian
manufacturers, together with German MTU, who, for obvious reasons, blocked or
sabotaged for three years introduction of new Russian naval ships into services
since were main manufacturers of both gas turbines and diesel engines for
Russian Navy for years. Well, this is not the case anymore. Russia is doing it
herself. But, of course, it takes time to get off the needle of imported
technology and ramp up production. But no, rephrasing Mark Twain, the rumors of
Russia's dependence of Western technology were grossly exaggerated. So, sure,
let the US introduce new sanctions and see what happens and how they will
"crush" Russia. Good luck with that.
Russia
being branded a sponsor of terrorism is, of course, a completely different
matter. It shows:
1.
An utter desperation of the Washington's globalist establishment, which is
ready to go to any length to destroy Trump's presidency and with it destroy at
least some faint chance for the US to get its own house in order.
2.
Russophobia which is entering a terminal stage and criminalizes not only any
relations with Russia but, eventually, will criminalize the state of being
Russian as such. Any ethnic Russian in the US automatically becomes a suspect in
the whole spectrum of "subversive activity", since we all know today
that Russians are "genetically
driven" to do a mischief. I still hear
crickets on the part of the "free" American media who think it is OK
to view Russians as genetic danger to American democracy. Where did I hear this
before? Hm. Something is on the tip of my tongue.
3.
It shows steadily diminishing number of adults in Washington D.C. with it being
dominated by personalities who are ready for their very personal benefits, be
that political careers, payoffs and bribes of all kinds and, simply, egos
larger than cathedrals—a first sign of mediocrity—discard any pretense of so
called "service" to the American people, by means of getting these
very same American people, whom these legislative scumbags allegedly
"serve", into the situation in which an overwhelming majority of
Americans, should these American people were properly informed, would hate to
be in the first place.
Russia,
who suffered from terrorism on the order of magnitude more than the United
States, even the tragedy of 9/11 considered, will "gladly", I am
sure, receive such a distinction. I'd say to Lindsey Graham and Menendez—go for
it. Awareness of being in a glass house is not their strong point.
In
the meantime. It is 10th Anniversary of Russian-Georgian War, known
in Russia as 080808. In five days Georgian Army, trained and partially equipped
by NATO and Israeli instructors was utterly demolished by allegedly backward
Russian 58th Army and sent the message which Washington still cannot
comprehend to this day. And by comprehension I mean internalization and
application of the message to practical activity. When even
Condoleezza Rice had to admit that it was Saakashvili and his nation whipped
into the nationalistic frenzy who started the war,
it is the time to really reassess (yeah, yeah, any minute now) a geopolitical
reality. Just to demonstrate a complete imbecility and incompetence of most
American "observers" of that war, here is the "pearl" of
military "wisdom" from Strategic Studies Institute. Get this for fun:
How Georgian Army, utterly demolished by forward units of
the 58th Army, with most of those 58th Army tanks being
re-deployed from exercises with much of their ammo still being practical (that
is blank—for training purposes), "benefited" is difficult to
comprehend. I have a dirty joke about that but I will abstain. Already then
Russian Army was in the transformation process and for all its ills and
mistakes in that campaign, the outcome was never in doubt (well, except for
many Western "analysts"). As General Khrulev said himself yesterday—the
difference between then (2008) and today (2018) would be that today Russian Army
would demolish Georgian Armed Forces not in 5 but in 2 days (in Russian). I
guess this is the main reason which drives Washington's establishment insane
and we can observe that in real time.
