Pass the New Russia Sanctions Bill to End the War Faster and Honor Lindsey Graham

The late senator was right on Ukraine.

Share this story

Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) speaks to the media after his meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 10, 2026.

Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

Lindsey Graham spent the last Friday of his life in Kyiv, where he announced that he had finally gotten President Trump’s blessing for his new Russia sanctions bill. He flew home. The next night, an aortic dissection killed him at age 71 in his house on Capitol Hill. Since Russia is a leader in developing hard-to-detect assassination chemicals and one of the few nations in the world to use targeted assassinations as a tool of foreign policy, an investigation was conducted into his cause of death. So far, the preliminary findings indicate that the senator died of natural causes.

This brings us to the important subject of how best to honor a man who led many of America’s foreign policy debates and was respected, and even loved, by many Republicans and Democrats.

Gregory W. Slayton

About the Author

Gregory W. Slayton

Gregory W. Slayton is a former senior U.S. diplomat, chairman of Slayton Capital, and author of Portraits of Ukraine: A Nation at War.

SI

About the Author

Sergei Ivashenko

Sergei Ivashenko is a co-author of the recent bestseller “Portraits of Ukraine a Nation at War,” which gives all profits from book sales to pro-Ukrainian charities.

Comments

Advertisement

Advertisement