Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The prominent Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham, said that the world would be a better place if there was a change in Russia’s regime, in a new statement he made following Moscow responded to a call to “assassinate” Russian President Vladimir Putin.
I challenge Secretary Blinken and the Biden Administration to declare the activities of Putin and his inner circle as war crimes and have the Administration fully support the investigation and prosecution of Putin as a war criminal.
“It is clear to me that the world would be a better place if there was a regime change in Russia,” Graham said in a tweet on his official Twitter page. “Putin is a war criminal who must go – into the hands of the Russian people – by any means possible.”
“I challenge Secretary Blinken and the Biden administration to declare the activities of Putin and his inner circle as war crimes, and have the administration fully support the investigation and prosecution of Putin as a war criminal…Anything less is harm to the Ukrainian people, the Russian people, and the world order,” he said in a separate tweet.
Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?
The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.
You would be doing your country – and the world – a great service.
Graham had sparked a wide interaction with a tweet, in which he said: “Is there Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful colonel in the Russian army than Stauffenberg? The only way it will end is for someone in Russia to finish this man… You will present to your country – and the world – Great service..”
Graham continued in a separate tweet: “The only people who can fix this are the Russian people… Easy to say, hard to do… Unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, cut off from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness, you Need to move…”
In response to these statements, the Russian ambassador to America, Anatoly Antonov, said, according to what the Russian embassy posted on its official Facebook page: “I find the American politician’s statement unacceptable and outrageous… The degree of Russia-phobia and hatred in the United States towards Russia is outside the scope… It is impossible.” To believe that a senator of a country that promotes its moral values as a ‘guiding star’ for all of humanity can afford to advocate terrorism as a means of achieving Washington’s goals in the international arena.”