Delusional idiot John McCain promises war on Putin and Russia

Di Massimiliano Greco translated by Tom Winter
Fort Russ
Sun, 08 Jan 2017 10:16 UTC

Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham went to Kiev to bring support to the Ukrainian coup, promising that 2017 will be the year in which America will regulate accounts with Putin, who will be, in their terms, defeated on the fields of battle of Eastern Europe. "If Putin wins in Ukraine, then he can invade the rest of the world," said McCain. "Your struggle is our struggle," he added, pointing to the putschists. "Back home, we will push for measures to be taken on the issue. It is time for them to pay a heavy price."

Graham, first asserts that "the Russians will have to pay a high price: it's time that they stop attacking other countries," then poses as a moderate, saying that "our struggle is not against the Russian people, but against Putin."

Comment: Meanwhile, in America...

McCain, for his part, reiterated: "I believe we will win. We will do everything we can to provide what is needed for victory. On the other hand, the successes we have achieved, we owe not to the equipment, but to your courage. The world is watching: we can not allow Vladimir Putin to succeed here, because if he succeeds here, he will succeed in other countries. "

McCain concluded by saying that for him Putin really manipulated the American elections, and that this too, should reinforce both the sanctions against Moscow, and the military aid to countries friendly to America, including Ukraine.

What to say? The hatred of McCain and his companions is not rational, given that, if Putin really manipulated the American elections, making the Republicans win, McCain, being a Republican, for consistency should ask his party colleagues to resign, starting with Trump.

Comment: Obviously there's nothing rational in what McCain says, never mind the fact that there's absolutely no evidence of Russians hacking the election.

The outbursts of McCain, who actually delegitimizes Trump and only criticizes Obama for being too good with Putin, demonstrate, once again, that the real clash in America is not between Democrats and Republicans, but between realists and neoconservatives. In the first set we find Trump and Kissinger, in the second, Soros, Clinton, and McCain.

Putin, in his own time, dismissed McCain with a few simple words.

Comment: For more information: On warpath against Trump, Mad Dogs John McCain and Lindsey Graham spend New Years receiving medals from neo-Nazi Ukraine government

Mark Nicholas writes (in Russia Insider):

Most people want to spend the New Year's eve with their families. John McCain spent it holed up in a forward combat outpost with Ukrainian marines on the frontlines against Ukraine's pro-Russian rebels. On the New Year he then travelled to Georgia where he preached about the need to "stand up to Vladimir Putin". Before Ukraine McCain was visiting the Baltic states where NATO has been steadily increasing its troop presence citing a Russian threat.

McCain had once famously spent the night holed up with Syrian rebels who later turned out to be hard-core jihadists. Likewise he joined the anti-government protestors in Ukraine in 2013 who spearheaded by far-right street fighters (and snipers) would go on to overthrow the Ukrainian president Yanukovich.

In other words McCain has a history of reckless photo ops which A.) end up an embarrassment for him and B.) end up encouraging radicals and promoting chaos.

McCain had a famously close relationship with Georgia's Saakashvili who launched a war in 2008 against the breakaway republic of South Ossetia and the Russian peacekeepers stationed there. Saakashvili is long gone however and the new government has distanced itself from such adventurism so fortuately there isn't a danger the McCain factor will have grander consequences here.

Kiev however, would be well advised not to mistake the egging on by a hardline US legislator for official American support -- the very mistake Saakashvili comitted in 2008.