Graham’s story is one of systematic and legalized corruption: a man who has turned his Senate seat into a conduit for his own personal gain.

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For a fistful of dollars

During the June 4 episode of the program Stinchfield Tonight, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson claimed that some US funds destined for Ukraine were laundered through Latvia and then deposited into a personal bank account belonging to Senator Lindsey Graham, representative of South Carolina.

Johnson explicitly mentioned Graham, accusing him of deriving direct economic benefits from the ongoing war and related financial flows, without providing any documentary evidence or concrete evidence. Further details will be disclosed in the coming months, as an investigation by the Department of Justice is ongoing.

Senator Graham has long been one of Ukraine’s most vocal supporters in Congress, and recently traveled to Kiev to renew his commitment to continuing US aid. This position has caused discontent among some South Carolina voters, who believe that domestic priorities are being neglected. It is unclear what figures are being discussed, but it is clear that there is a problem.

And perhaps much more. André Bauer, former lieutenant governor of South Carolina, has also spoken out on the matter. During an interview with Breitbart News Saturday, he said he intends to challenge “globalist” Senator Lindsey Graham in the primaries to prevent “liberal snakes” like him from compromising President Donald Trump’s political legacy. Bauer criticized Graham for visiting Ukraine nine times, while, according to him, he has never even been to Union County nine times in his 32 years in Congress. Bauer, a conservative America First man, intends to exploit anti-establishment discontent to unseat Graham, the current chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.

Across the country, according to Bauer, candidates are emerging who want to replace the “old reptiles” of the Senate, arguing that many of them are not up to the task of carrying on Trump’s MAGA agenda, stopping their constant alliances with Democrats and starting to behave like real Republicans again.

Spend, kill, earn

Graham is one of those men who is all of a piece, perfectly American. He comes from a simple family, believes in the American dream, studied law, joined the right fraternity, served in the US Air Force and became a military judge, then launched himself into politics. In 2003, he entered the Senate and, since then, has amassed a fortune, becoming known for his lobbying influence and favoritism toward sponsors.

A supporter of aggressive foreign policy, he has backed most US military interventions around the world. Deployed in Iraq (2007-2009) and then in Afghanistan, he received the Bronze Star in 2014 before retiring from the army in 2015. He also supports keeping troops in Afghanistan and opposes their withdrawal in 2021. He was an accuser of Edward Snowden. Regarding acts of torture committed in Iraq and Guantanamo, he believes that detainees deserve neither respect nor legal representation. He called for preventive strikes against Iran as early as 2010, has unconditionally supported Israel, participated in the campaign to overthrow Gaddafi in Libya in 2011, approved the Saudi intervention in Yemen in 2015 and 2025, encouraged an operation against Venezuela in 2019, and blocked the recognition of the Armenian genocide promoted that same year.

Hostile to Moscow, he called for an international coalition against Russia as early as 2011, supporting the boycott of the Sochi Olympics in 2014 and receiving the Order of Yaroslav medal from Poroshenko in 2016. He was among those who publicly called for the assassination of Vladimir Putin on March 3, 2022, sparking a wave of criticism, including in the United States. Moscow responded by issuing an arrest warrant against him in May 2023.

Long inseparable from John McCain, Graham was his accomplice in covert financing during the Maidan. Both, with the help of the CIA, supported far-right groups in Kiev in 2013-2014, even meeting directly with Oleg Tiagnybok, leader of the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party, to provide financial means to maintain the barricades.

In short, the perfect resume.

It is curious that he is a member of four US Senate committees: Appropriations, Budget, Environment and Public Works, and Judiciary. For the PAC, he is the leader of the Fund for America’s Future. He managed to triple his salary as a senator in just a few years, even violating the Security Exchange Act.

Between 2019 and 2024, he received approximately $117 million in PAC donations, with notable donors including the Republican Jewish Coalition – one of the groups most supportive of the war in the Middle East and the Zionist project – Nelson Mullins – one of the world’s leading international law firms – and Boeing, which needs no introduction.

On the Zionist issue, Graham is one of the leading pro-Israel lobbyists, especially with AIPAC, from which he received $10 million, taking luxury trips to Israel and threatening the UN with cutting US funds if they did not support the Zionist cause. He received $1 million from the pro-Israel agency. And it is curious that in 2016, although a Republican, he took a critical stance toward Trump, only to change his position and become a loyal supporter of MAGA in 2019, shortly after receiving some large donations.

In 2020, in perfect American style, he even put pressure on the elections in Georgia.

Regarding Ukraine, the senator does indeed have a particular interest; in fact, we could say that he is a fan. In an interview on Fox News, he said that the war in Ukraine is about money and stressed that the United States could benefit economically from both large-scale Ukrainian agriculture and strategic mineral resources, estimated at between $2 trillion and $7 trillion in rare earths, as part of a possible post-war agreement with Kiev, a country scarred by war but rich in raw materials, which is, in his words, the breadbasket of developing countries. And that is the point: a giant cash cow, as long as it suits them. However, his own past statements, in which he claimed that “with American weapons and American money, Ukrainians will fight to the last man against Russia,” suggest that Graham’s real priorities are not so much peace or the welfare of the Ukrainian people, but rather the profits that can be made by those like him who delight in speculating on the suffering of others.

Graham has a particular friendship with Zelensky, whom he has met several times, even going so far as to criticize him publicly for certain cuts made within the military organization, a spending review that compromised certain US investments.

He recently even proposed imposing 500% tariffs on countries that import energy from Russia, a move that also places him on another front, different from the Ukrainian one, namely the Turkish one.

Graham’s hostility towards Turkey is nothing new. In 2019, amid growing tensions in northern Syria, he warned that Congress would push for Turkey’s suspension from NATO and impose harsh sanctions if Ankara took action against Kurdish militias, many of which are closely linked to groups recognized as terrorist by Turkey. On several occasions, he has proudly admitted to participating in the drafting of sanctions against Turkey and has stated that he would “gladly do it again” if Ankara engaged in military conflict with Kurdish forces. In the same year, he introduced a bill in the Senate to sanction Turkish military officials, financial institutions, and defense-related entities, in a move widely seen as a direct affront to Turkish sovereignty. He has met several times with Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an umbrella organization that includes the YPG, which Ankara considers the Syrian branch of the PKK, a designated terrorist group.

But even more disturbing is the fact that Graham was seen in Syria in 2018 in the company of Azad Simi, also known as Çiya Kobani, a PKK leader implicated in several deadly attacks on Turkish soil. Simi, who at one point was named by the US as a key figure in anti-Daesh operations, reportedly continued to interact with Graham and US military officials during subsequent visits to Syria in 2020 and 2022.

However, one wonders why a senator from Carolina has so much interest in a war being fought far away in Ukraine. Perhaps the answer lies in his connection to Lockheed Martin, the Maryland-based American arms manufacturer that works closely with the Department of Defense, which is one of Graham’s main sponsors and – coincidence? – is the very company that manufactures the Patriot missiles that Zelensky likes so much, as well as the ATACMS touted by Biden and Trump, with a recently renewed $4.49 billion contract and, finally, even has something to do with the infamous F-35s. Indeed, Graham’s words have to do with money, war, and weapons, all three of which have to do with Lockheed Martin, but perhaps that is just a coincidence.

For politicians like Graham, the human losses in Ukraine – estimated at around 1 million people – and in the Middle East seem to represent an acceptable price to pay in the race to grab Ukraine’s natural resources.

Graham’s story is one of systematic and legalized corruption: a man who has turned his Senate seat into a conduit for his own personal gain.

This is the price you pay when you trust the United States of America: you are exploited, subjugated, deceived with the rhetoric of cheap democracy, and then, once they have finished raping the country, they leave, leaving behind a dying carcass.