In the dark corridors of the United States’ power and politics, where morality is starkly traded for profit, and human lives are calculated as unimportant line items on a balance sheet, few figures embody the terrible mix of greed and warmongering quite like Senator Lindsey Graham. The notorious South Carolina Republican has positioned himself as the Senate’s most reliable cheerleader for endless wars—not in service of the American people, but in service to two masters: the Israeli colonial project and the blood-soaked defense industry that profits from every conflict it helps ignite.

It requires no deep intelligence operation to track the statements of American politicians who beat the drums of war that is mostly covered with religious heresies.

Their calculus is brutally simple: more conflicts mean more arms sales, and more arms sales mean more billions flowing into the accounts of defense corporations that, in turn, ensure these politicians, like Graham, remain comfortably seated in Congress.

Their calculus is brutally simple: more conflicts mean more arms sales, and more arms sales mean more billions flowing into the accounts of defense corporations that, in turn, ensure these politicians, like Graham, remain comfortably seated in Congress.

This devilish relationship between death merchants and their legislative allies has fueled the American-led wars in the past two decades, in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, and most recently, the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran.

Lindsey Graham stands as the typical politician of this unholy........

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