Russia Seeks Washington Edge After Lindsey Graham, 71, Dies
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Updated · The Washington Post · Jul 14
Russia Seeks Washington Edge After Lindsey Graham, 71, Dies
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Jul 14
Summary
Pro-Kremlin officials and commentators are openly hoping Lindsey Graham’s death will give Moscow a new opening in Washington, particularly inside the Trump White House.
Graham had been regarded in Moscow as the toughest anti-Russia voice in U.S. politics, a role he came to embody even more after Sen. John McCain’s 2018 death.
That perception made Graham a singular obstacle for the Kremlin, so his absence is being viewed in Russia less as a symbolic loss than as a potential shift in U.S. power dynamics.