Perhaps the oddest friendship President Donald Trump keeps is that with Sen. Lindsey Graham, the junior partner in the longtime McCain-Graham neocon team. Graham is always ready to bomb another country or put American troops in harm’s way around the world. And now he’s urging President Trump to escalate tensions with Russia. All Israel News reports:

Now, Graham says he is readying a bill for Trump to impose “bone-crushing” economic sanctions on Putin and the Russian economy if Putin doesn’t end this war immediately.

The bill would also hit Communist China and other countries with draconian sanctions if they keep buying cheap Russian oil, giving Putin the funds he desperately needs to continue his barbaric and unconscionable war with Ukraine.

Graham told me that he now has 85 co-sponsors in the Senate.

That’s unheard of.

There are only 100 senators – and the chamber is deeply divided – Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on almost anything these days.

But they agree on this: Vladimir Putin is a monster, he’s the one who started this war, and he must be stopped.

Graham said he also has 100 co-sponsors in the House, and has the support of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to move this legislation to an immediate vote.

All he needs now is for Trump to signal that it’s time to get the legislation passed, giving him vastly more leverage to force Putin to make a serious deal – and soon.

“Trump is the quarterback,” Graham told me.

“He’s calling the plays on how to deal with Putin.”

“I’m trying to give him tools he needs to bring this war to an end.”

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