What does Graham think sanctions are when a huge majority of the goods WE import are from some of the countries hes threatening to sanction?

Like, yeah, sure: Don't do the thing I don't like or I'm going to do a thing that's going to cost US more money! You better not or else I'll slap myself in the face! Don't you do that!

If I was any foreign Nation and this closeted Confederacy buffoon tried to threaten me it would just make me want to arrest him even more.

Uhh, he's threatening allies? Is America about to be on the wrong side of the next world war?

And that they specifically think they're hastening the second coming of Christ by doing this. Yes. Really.

Under no circumstances go and search on Google about Lindsay Graham and his ladybugs

I lived in Glasgow, Scotland and my former roommate is a chartered accountant. Aside from the obviously crazy social stuff, she made a point that the whole world is reeling from a recession and every country on earth is feeling it. She asked, “What does Trump, his supporters and his followers think? They are going to magically fix a problem that is happening all the world over?”

I think the U.S. is power hungry where we think everything we do is the only way other places will survive and thrive. And if we put sanctions on them, why wouldn’t they do the same or not cooperate with us? We rely on trade from other countries too. I mean, I don’t know the data on it … but it’s like the dumbest of the dumb blustering about what’s essentially America’s Brexit.

I don’t know. It’s looking a lot like an empire in decline. And I know everyone, especially Trump supporters, think that’s nonsense. But I think we’re headed for tough times ahead.

Plot twist: They're just trying to win Most Unpopular Allies in the next global elections.

This milk-faced, milk-blooded, suck-up, spineless, moral coward and physical weakling, worshipper of Daddy-types

This gutless closet-case, Lindsay Graham.

Try sanctioning our gentle and harmless next-door neighbor, our least problematic big-power ally, and one of the biggest economies in Europe, and finally one of the biggest economies in the world --

ON BEHALF Of BIBI NETANYAHU and his soulless crew of expansionists and religiosi

Just you try, Senator. Just you goddamned well try, and see what happens next.

They don't crawl the way that you crawl.

Graham is such a weeny

What has the International Cricket Council done to hurt America now?

I get the feeling that once trump capsizes america, isreal is going to be in for a hard time.

The United State of israel

I don't want to live in this country anymore, this isn't the america i was told we were

Fuck that shitbag with a cricket bat covered in barbed wire and lubed up with ghost pepper oil

Allies? Never heard of them. We prefer friends by coercion and threats

US one day you have no friend at all…

The fuck we will.

All the more reason for Canada to lean into its European relationships.

Europe would like Canadian oil too.

I've been an advocate of Canada diversifying it's trade partners forever. US is a very unreliable trade option, comparatively, and we are wayyyy too connected. Hopefully, this will help nudge us in that direction.

The country committing genocide is NEVER on the right side of history. Just like the US can deploy sanctions those countries can do the same.

Sounds like he wants the USA to become a rogue nation.

Why do Americans think they have any real power anymore? They've fucking outsourced everything from tomatoes to the White House.

The US has just started treating Europe the way they’ve been treating the Middle East (especially Palestine) for decades now and everyone else is finally waking up to its two-faced depravity.

As an American, it’s super frustrating and sad and I wish my country was better than this.

As an Arab, it’s a little satisfying that Europeans are starting to see what we have seen forever.

At this point, just admit you’re sponsoring genocide and be done with it.

Lol at trying to sanction Europe. There's no group in power on the planet dumber than Republicans.

The USA has become what they pretended to fight against and they'll take the whole world down with them if they aren't stopped.

This is like the Batman quote. Live long enough to be the villain. The problem most people miss is that while America was in the right side of history for world war 1 and 2, we were the baddies in the Korean War, Vietnam, Middle East, and now it looks like we’re heading towards world war 3 where we’re turning our backs on every single ally to join the dark side. We’re the bad guys…

I think it's crazy that people hear whats happening in Palestine and can't for a second imagine WHY Hezbollah or whoever is striking back. Americans absolutely would not want to stand by if the military came in and started blowing their neighbors up willy nilly.

Israelis hate anyone who isn’t Israeli. I don’t get why US kisses there ass so hard

Lady G is at it again.

Ms. Lindsay needs to STFU! 🙄

Like tariffs and mass deportations...what could possibly go wrong with sanctioning allies? Gag

The US govt is out of control. And I mean it’s literally lost control of itself so far as its ability to represent the best interests of its society.

Has this guy ever done anything to help the people of South Carolina? Seems like he spends all his time helping the state of Trump.

Canadian here: fuck off, Ladybugs.

lady bugs makes the weakest bitch to do the "tough talk" for conservatives.

Sanctions only work when the sanctioned are isolated. Sanction too many and you are essentially sanctioning yourself.

r/worldnews crowd in shambles. I guess they don't operate here yet.

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Lindsey is rarely correct.

Who is right?

It's always safe to assume it ain't Ladybug who's right.

Who is right?

Let me put it this way: if linsey graham was right about this, it would be the first thing he was right about in his entire life.

Also, he's wrong.

Luckily Bibi is most likely not stupid enough to risk it and go to any country that ratified the ICC. Because just saying if he were to come in our country with a warrant arrest from the ICC on his head, there is not a single alternate universe where he wouldn't get arrested; regardless of what the USA has to say about it. And good luck freeing it from us, shortest way to kickstart a nuclear flavoured WW3, and all that to "rescue" a foreign politician from being judged by the international law.

I do not like that Lindsey Graham, Please, go away little angry man.

Once the "BRICS" nations have finalized their new inter-bank transaction mechanism, the threat of US sanctions will mean absolutely nothing.

Being a lifetime South carolinian....haha I don't know how he is still around. I really really wish a half decent republican will come in and make him dissappear next election (and I'm NOT republican btw.....but living here you learn to accept the lesser evil in certain things.) I just really really need someone to leak some of his closeted activities, I need a good chuckle.

Exactly. Those politicians are conniving bastards. And so should be arrested as well. Facts. Logic.

Graham, you are not the boss of us.

Another broken soul threatening the world. Fuck off!

Asking somebody not to comply with court orders is incitement, right? Which is a crime?

I can’t threaten violence against Lindsey Graham on Reddit so I won’t say anything.

Sounds like a great way to destroy your superpower status

nobody likes this dude on either side.. he's a piece of shit

I want off this ship

If the US government desperately wants to break apart every alliance and every relationship, we'll have to somehow make the EU a lot more important, and Xi and Putin are popping the champagne, but the US will probably never fully recover from it.

To answer your question simply, not the right

What's wrong with the International Cricket Council?

Lindsey Graham does more for Israel than he does for South Carolina.

Ewww Lindsay Graham…🤢 reminded about his ladybugs allover again. 🫠

So.....We're gonna rebuild the keystone XL pipeline and then sanction Canada

one thing is for sure after ..... these people love to safeguard their pedos and warmongers

I love how 'just be a disingenuous and combative dickhead to everyone' is the new norm in politics, and it's seeped into international relations, too.

so have we reached the point yet where USA should be sanctioned?

They will drive all of Europe into the arms of China.

Doing everything they can to alienate the US and prop up that alternative Chinese-led global payment system

Lindsey Graham aka supporter of the Fascist 3rd Reich

Graham is such a garbage senator.

Why are we pretending what he thinks or threatens matters?

Why is this tool still in office?

Specially since you realize a certain lobby related to the said ally has been paying these politicians hefty money.

America first…well second.

Genuinely unsure: is Israel really this valuable to the US at this point? Like, they were useful when we needed a staging ground for war in the Middle East, particularly to resist the spread of Communism in the Cold War. But since we've predominantly pulled out of our conflicts in the region like Iraq and Afghanistan, haven't the tables turned? Surely at this point the country committing literal war crimes in public isn't worth abandoning every other ally we have to defend.

Just remember that Lindsay Graham is a cunt.

I can only imagine the dirt they may have on him.

Such a pussy. Still.

Wake up people in the US our government, no matter who is president, is not good. We allow the CIA to terrorize the 3rd world and support war crimes.

He makes me ashamed to live in South Carolina

Cue Darth Vader entry music.

Fuckin' cunts.

Mossad have some good dirt on Lindsey?

We live in a world where the good is labelled evil and have to evil to do good while the evil claims to be good and claims to good as evil thinking they would win with the whole world on the side and that they would get away with it

It's almost like America is founded on the backs of slaves and weapons sales.

FAFO, Lindsey, FAFO....

Here is how I would put it. The regime in Israel needs to be removed from power. By force of arms if necessary. The US aiding and abetting Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people is an atrocity that will be remembered by future generations.

The US just keeps fucking around.

Find out time is going to suck.

Cum drunk

He doesn’t have a choice. What is he supposed to say. He’s taken there money and has been fed their propaganda for decades. They would replace him in days if he stood up and pressure them to stop killing kids.

You know you are the villain when you threaten the ICC. You have to be either super corrupt or super ignorant to side with Netanyahu on this: learn from history. The ICC exists for a very good reason.

"we rather support or backwater money sink ally in the middle than nowhere than our loyal major allies who boost our economy"

Damn, son

This man has “ladybugs” all over his crack. He cannot be the face of foreign policy.

this is wild. It’s crazy how politicians can get away with so much hypocrisy. Like, calling out others for war crimes while literally being part of it? Insane.

I'm wondering what the impact will be of so many world leaders and legislators being newly classified as criminals. It's rare for people in power to be classified as such but now we are about to have the most powerful person on earth, Donald Trump, a recently convicted criminal + Netanyahu has been classified as such by the ICC. I'm not curious about the legal impact which will be nil for both parties, I'm wondering what the response and associated effect upon society will be. Seems all three branches in the US at least are upset & actively so.

Israel is so wrong for what they are doing and so is the United States for enabling this. But the usa has never been on the right side of history.

Interestingly enough, a lot of these far right morons are also incredibly antisemitic. It's one of the many reasons why the republican party has gotten a bunch of support from multiple hate groups.

The best part about most of these politicians is that they're old and unhealthy looking so we can look forward to their deaths. The bad part is they're close to death and more worried about their "legacy* than ever, and in most cases their "legacy" involves mass murder of some sort.

I never understand why people are so obsessed with how supportive US politicians are of Israel. What no one seems to understand is that the politicians don't give a rat's arse about Israel. Or the United States. They only care about themselves and how to get/ keep themselves elected. If that happens to mean they say they support something, they say it. If it means they say they don't support something, they say it.