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GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham: Russia invaded Ukraine because of Benghazi
South Carolina's senior senator threatens to kill irony once and for all
TOPICS: LINDSEY GRAHAM, SEN. GRAHAM, BENGHAZI, UKRAINE, CRIMEA, UKRAINE CRISIS, CRIMEA CRISIS,VLADIMIR PUTIN, REPUBLICAN PARTY, GOP, MEDIA NEWS, NEWS, POLITICS NEWS
South Carolina’s senior senator, Republican Lindsey Graham, has long been second to none — not even his good buddy Sen. John McCain — when it comes to obsessing over the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. Seriously, he’s relentless.
And yet, we have to admit we were still surprised to find on Tuesday that this tweet, which was sent out from his official Twitter account, actually exists in the world and is not a ham-fisted joke from Bill Maher or Jon Stewart:
So, just to be clear, here’s how Graham thinks things went down in Eastern Europe:
*Vladimir Putin saw his Ukrainian neighbor to the West falling into disarray and, potentially, a closer alliance with Western Europe and the United States.
*He also knew that the Crimea province of Ukraine was full of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, many of whom think of themselves more as Russians than Ukrainians.
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Elias Isquith is an assistant editor at Salon, focusing on politics. Follow him on Twitter at @eliasisquith, and email him at eisquith@salon.com.
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