Lindsay Graham ought to be locked up in a padded cell in order to protect him and the rest of the world from his sheer lunacy, which apparently knows no bounds. He went on Fox News on Tuesday night (March 14), after the US drone went down in the Black Sea, to demand that the Biden Administration retaliate by shooting down Russian planes. “If you ever get near another US asset flying in international waters, your airplane will be shot down,” he said, addressing the Kremlin’s leaders. “What would Ronald Reagan do right now?” Graham added. “He would start shooting Russian planes down if they were threatening our assets. American foreign policy is in freefall.” American foreign policy is indeed in freefall, but what Graham is suggesting would turn it into a nuclear-tipped rocket heading straight for the earth.
And, in effect, that’s what Anatoly Antonov warned in response to a media question about Graham’s comment. After recalling that a year ago Graham had called on Russian citizens to assassinate Vladimir Putin, Antonov asked: “Does Senator Graham really believe that a direct military clash with Russia is in the interests of the voters who entrusted him with their lives and livelihood?”
“A deliberate attack on a Russian aircraft in neutral airspace is not just a crime under international law, but an open declaration of war against the largest nuclear power,” Antonov said. “An armed conflict between Russia and the United States would be radically different from the proxy war the Americans are waging remotely against us in Ukraine. Is the Capitol willing to put American citizens and the international community at risk of a full-scale nuclear war? Give us an answer, distinguished Senator!”
