Senator Lindsey Graham says US must back Ukraine to avoid China taking over Taiwan

If the United States fails to back Ukraine enough in the war against Russia, that would send a signal to China that it could take Taiwan, a senior Senator said on a visit to Kyiv on Friday (May 26).

Lindsey Graham, a Republican, said after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that U.S. President Joe Biden should send more weapons to Ukraine in addition to the more than $35 billion of weaponry and military hardware already provided.

A hard-line toward China is one of the few policies with bipartisan support in the deeply divided U.S. Congress.

Beijing considers Taiwan part of its territory. Chinese armed forces conducted exercises, fired missiles over Taiwan and cut military contacts with Washington after former House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the self-governed island in August 2022.

"There can be no backing off of helping Ukraine. Because if we fail here, there goes Taiwan," Graham told reporters.

In order for a long-anticipated Ukraine counteroffensive to succeed, its forces need more and better armaments, such as U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets and longer-range weapons, Graham said.

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[edgarthepeaceful]

People are dying, but for them it's just a good investment. Stop wasting our money on the war!

[notarmchairhistorian]

"And the Russians are dying. Best money we've ever spent."
-"Good guy" US Senator Lindsey

If this doesn't convince you that you are on the side of EVIL, I don't know what to tell you. You've probably already lost your morality as well as your mind.

[CommerciallyViableUsername]

“Russians are dying” “best money we ever spent” how about we send his ass with broken equipment over to Ukraine or his favorite country Israel so he can actually put some blood and sweat into the things he supposedly believes. Sounds fair to me

[adeline]

he is a monster. He pouts that people are dying. Both Ukrainians and Russians are dying, and the Americans are laughing and rubbing their paws. After all, this war has brought and will bring them a lot of profit. If God exists, I hope he will punish these hypocrites.

[chrisophone]

What ????
and the Russians are dying. That’s the best money we’ve ever spent.” — Lindsey Graham. 😵

[husseinhussein]

'AND THE RUSSIANS ARE DYING ' Evil to the core

[bharathsf]

Comments section shows that the West is waking up

[johnsakelaris]

I say we put the warmonger Graham on the front lines in Ukraine.

[collapsingquantumwav]

When all this is over, I wonder how much Ze and his generals are gonna take home. Thanks to the American taxpayer.

[UkraineWarAwareness]

0:30 - "Killing Russian's is the best money we ever spent"... Now I am EASTERN UKRAINIAN from Kharkov, my ethnicity is Russian, despite my Nationality being Ukrainian, I was always Ukrainian, but I never supported the Western back 2014 Regime Change of Ukraine that are indiscriminently killing either "Ethnic Russian's in Ukraine" or "Russian-Speaking Ukrainian's" in Eastern Ukraine (not just Donbass, but Kharkov and Odessa too) for the last NINE (9) YEARS!!!.. So this Senator's remarks INCLUDE RUSSIAN CIVILIANS who live / lived in Eastern Ukraine...

While Ukrainian Media over the last 9 years taught Ukrainian's SO MUCH HATRED towards Russian's, that I truly wonder if it's to a worser extent than how the Jews were blamed for everything in 1933 by Germany. Books were burned, just like Ukraine just pulled out 19 MILLION Ancient Rus', Russian Empire, Soviet, and Modern Russian Books. The destruction of monuments, who include the names of the dead who fought against German's (WHICH INCLUDE UKRAINIAN NAMES, but those Ukrainian's are "bad" because they just so happened to be born under the USSR and fought for it instead of the OUN-UPA 14th SS Galicia Division / Stepan Bandera).

I AM AN EASTERN UKRAINIAN FROM KHARKOV (I will NOT write "KHARKIV", they FORCE us to "Ukrainianize", we called it "Kharkov" for HUNDREDS of Years!). We are tired of Ukrainian NATIONALIST UNITS (Kraken in Kharkov, all the groups that attacked Belgorod [VICE even admitted they were Neo-You-know-what], 3rd Assault Brigade (Re-branded Azov), etc..
This is the PUREST DEFINITION of "DIVIDE & CONQUER" because for hundreds of years, Russian's, Ukrainian's, and Belarusian's were always united, and were called "The 3 Russia's".. Now the US is doing the same to Taiwan, building SEPARATISM there and provoking China to "attack Taiwan", when it is NOT in the Taiwanese people's interest to go to war with China..

[typicallifeoh]

"And the russians are dying"....what a warpig blood smile

[dsaizet]

"Russian are dying best money we spent" Whats actually evil america

[arthurschmidt]

“ Russians are dying the best money we ever spend”. Americans, I hope that in any conflict in which you will ever take part, the Russians will send your enemies as many weapons as possible.

[taeminlee]

A man who takes money from a defense contractor.

[widerje]

Let's see Graham serve in the front for a day, tell us how important war is. These non fighting war pigs. Peace talks are the only way to save Ukraine.

[DerpStranger]

To be so happy that people are dying is sheer madness. And it's even more insane that anyone supports him.

[ensh]

The US is making Zelensky a multi-billionaire....! Shouldn't he be on Forbes rich list....!!!

[lwzfog]

can he get zionliesky to explain the Ukrainian ‘kill list’, featuring numerous foreign nationals, that is hosted on a NATO server ?

[DonaldHutchinson-tohw]

We must continue with our colonial attitudes. 🇺🇸 doesn't realise yet that it's over for them as a world power....those billions being spent to kill could have done a lot of good in for 🇺🇸 homeless population.

[andrysab]

Дуже цікава розмова, схоже що нами торгують як на ринку рабів