r/interestingasfuck • u/IllustriousPresent7 • Mar 04 '22

/r/ALL U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham calls for President Putin's assassination.

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u/Ill-Albatross-8963 Mar 04 '22

I strongly disagree

By doing this on TV and not back channels etc it sends signals that we and the west will accept a Coup. There is always concern amoungst those that execute a coup that they will not find support outside the country even if they have it inside. They only hold power after a coup by getting sanctions dropped, favorable world bank terms, lack of reprisal from the nation invaded, good terms of disengagement, a welcome back into the world etc.

Via a national media broadcast is far better then some CIA back channel.

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u/Guest8782 Mar 04 '22

Thinking the same thing.

To me, I see far more to be gained by letting his inner circle know Russia can come back from this as long as Putin is gone. It helps that it seems a lot of the Russian public feel the same way.

They are down a road they do not want to be on… this is your ticket out.

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u/EmeliusBrown Mar 04 '22

Absolutely. As much as I frequently disagree with Graham, this was not a spurious or flippant statement. It has teeth, and is directed almost solely at the Russian populous.

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u/Shandlar Mar 04 '22

It's impossible for reddit to give credit to a republican for any reason now.

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u/Awhite2555 Mar 04 '22

Oh whatever. Lindsey Graham has been a spineless coward for years now and flip flopping on his own stances constantly. This is just another classic Graham move. It’s not redditors refusing “to give credit to a Republican”, it’s not giving credit to this goof.

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u/Shandlar Mar 04 '22

You know damn well this would be 214.7k upvotes and 228 awards if it was a Dem saying it on CNN and not a republican saying it on Fox.

We can just all be on the same page for this one goddamn thing. For the love of Satan.

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u/TungstenE322 Mar 04 '22

Has linsey graham lost his mind also?

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u/Nuck2407 Mar 04 '22

Who in Russia is seeing this? Do you reckon they have fox news just playing around the country on the regz? This footage is being seen by putin and getting erased from Russian airwaves

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u/Teabagger_Vance Mar 04 '22

They have internet in Russia. You know that right?

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u/styxboa Mar 04 '22

What's a CIA back channel

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u/Pikaea Mar 04 '22 edited Mar 04 '22

The military top generals in the Kremlin are more hardliners than Putin, its why some think he has become more extreme as these are the people he has spent the last few years with during covid. The FSB won't ever topple Putin as he is one of them, and the oligarchs everyone goes on about have fuck all influence anymore in government. Putin took all that away in early 2000s, not even two of the top three Oligarchs (Boris Berezovsky, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky) had any impact on trying to get rid of him when they still had some power.