The news of Senator Lindsey Graham’s sudden death came just as he had returned from his tenth wartime visit to Kyiv — only on Friday he was meeting with President Zelensky, talking about Ukraine’s air defense and sanctions against Russia.

Graham was never a classic legislator-diplomat. On the contrary — he was a man who stressed the necessity of forceful pressure on dictatorships and on their leaders. Who insisted that only such a position by the United States can help democratic countries build the foundations of their own security in our difficult world.

Senator Graham’s support for Ukraine, from the moment Russian aggression against our country began, was always consistent and principled. Indeed, in every other case of Russian aggression, the senator held to precisely the same position. Take the decision to attack little Georgia — the prelude to the great wars of the post-Soviet........

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