A Russian lawmaker suggested the country launch a pre-emptive missile attack on Alaska in a television segment that surfaced just as Senator Lindsey Graham appeared to say Russian deaths from United States’ funding to Ukraine was “the best money we’ve ever spent.”
“We have a strategic nuclear force that holds America’s territory. Let me remind you, there’s Alaska across the strait,” he said, before listing off a number of different types of missiles Russia had at the ready. “It doesn’t take much, a couple of brigades will suffice,” he added. It is unclear when the alarming comments on the show were made, but the clip was posted to Twitter by former Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Anton Herashchenk, on Friday— the same day Sen.
United States Senator Lindsey Graham meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Friday.Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said “The old fool Senator Lindsey Graham said that the United States has never spent money so successfully as on the murder of Russians. He shouldn’t have done that.”