{"id":1357735,"date":"2022-03-03T23:53:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T04:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357735"},"modified":"2022-03-03T23:53:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T04:53:49","slug":"on-putin-lindsey-graham-calls-for-russian-brutus-to-take-this-guy-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/on-putin-lindsey-graham-calls-for-russian-brutus-to-take-this-guy-out\/","title":{"rendered":"On Putin, Lindsey Graham Calls for Russian \u2018Brutus\u2019 to \u2018Take this Guy Out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fon-putin-lindsey-graham-calls-for-russian-brutus-to-take-this-guy-out%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357735&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238118168-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) employed extreme regime change rhetoric on Thursday when he called for a Russian \u201cBrutus\u201d to \u201ctake this guy out\u201d in reference to Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs 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,\u201d tweeted Graham. \u201cYou would be doing your country\u2013and the world\u2013a great service.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Graham then called upon the Russian people to rise up against Putin, lest they should \u201clive in darkness\u201d for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only people who can fix this are the Russian people. Easy to say, hard to do,\u201d he continued. \u201cUnless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness, you need to step up to the plate.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The only people who can fix this are the Russian people.<\/p>\n<p>Easy to say, hard to do.  <\/p>\n<p>Unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness you need to step up to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/1499575352426958848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Brutus was a reference to Marcus Brutus from Shakespeare\u2019s play <em>Julius Caesar<\/em>, a friend and confidante of the Roman emperor who colluded with Cassius to assassinate him. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg led the failed assassination attempt of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Graham\u2019s possible allusion to an assassination attempt against Putin followed a now-deleted tweet from former Obama Russian Ambassador Paul McFaul, who said there are no \u201cinnocent\u201d Russians if they do not rise up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no more \u2018innocent\u2019 \u2018neutral\u2019 Russians anymore,\u201d tweeted McFaul. \u201cEveryone has to make a choice\u2014 support or oppose this war. The only way to end this war is if 100,000s, not thousands, protest against this senseless war. Putin can\u2019t arrest you all!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I continue to think the reason these kinds of odious frameworks are accepted is because so many people either didn&#8217;t live through 2002 as adults or have forgotten what was done. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8usCFAZa5f\">pic.twitter.com\/8usCFAZa5f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1499039079572414466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lindsey Graham\u2019s comments come just one day after he offered the U.S. Senate measures to investigate\u00a0 Vladimir Putin for war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m doing today \u2026 is introducing a resolution supporting the complaint filed by the Ukrainian government,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/596535-graham-offers-senate-measure-urging-putin-to-be-investigated-for-war-crimes\">Graham said<\/a>. \u201cThis is a good example of where the International Criminal Court should exercise jurisdiction \u2026 I want the Senate to vote and speak with one voice in support of this complaint.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) employed extreme regime change rhetoric on Thursday when he called for a Russian \u201cBrutus\u201d to \u201ctake this guy out\u201d in reference to Vladimir Putin. \u201cIs there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}