副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯表示，周日，共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆(Lindsey Graham)敦促拜登政府向乌克兰提供更多援助俄罗斯犯下了“反人类罪”“在其入侵。
“我相信，当我们回到华盛顿时，这里将很快作出决定将开始在F-16上训练乌克兰飞行员著名的国防鹰派人物格雷厄姆在慕尼黑安全会议的一次独家采访中告诉美国广播公司“本周”节目的联合主持人玛莎·拉达茨。
那将代表美国支持的重大升级乔·拜登总统表示不愿意致力于。国务卿安东尼·布林肯单独出现在“本周”节目中没有说F-16是否已经被批准但指出对乌克兰人的适当培训也很重要。
“让我强调这一点:你怎么能把俄罗斯发动的这场战争称为反人类罪……却不给他们反人类罪的受害者阻止这一罪行所需的防御性武器?因此，我们需要迅速做两件事:根据美国法律，让俄罗斯成为支持恐怖主义的国家，这将使中国更难向俄罗斯提供武器，我们需要现在就开始在F-16上培训乌克兰飞行员，”格雷厄姆说。
在俄罗斯入侵乌克兰一周年前夕，世界各国领导人在慕尼黑举行年度聚会，讨论全球安全问题，哈里斯强调有必要用“蛮力”对抗专制国家。
“就俄罗斯在乌克兰的行动而言，我们已经检查了证据，我们知道法律标准，毫无疑问:这些是反人类罪，”她周六在安全会议上发表讲话时表示，反驳了俄罗斯一再否认其针对平民并犯下其他暴行的说法。
当Raddatz在“本周”节目中被问及向乌克兰提供F-16战斗机和远程导弹是否会激怒俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京时，Graham表示，他更关心的是将俄罗斯从乌克兰彻底清除。
“我不担心激怒普京。我想打败他。你怎么打败他?你击败了他，给了乌克兰人把俄罗斯人赶出乌克兰的军事能力，”他说，并补充说，“我看到了美国和海外的团结。”
“让我们确保在乌克兰击败普京，因为如果我们不这样做，他不会停止，”格雷厄姆说。
他说，俄罗斯的失败包括归还他们在2014年非法吞并的克里米亚半岛。格雷厄姆指出，上世纪90年代，苏联解体后，乌克兰与其他国家达成协议，乌克兰同意交出核武器，以换取一系列有保障的边界。
“不履行这一承诺将是欺骗乌克兰，将是奖励普京重写涉及核武器的协议，”他说。
他还呼吁建立国际法庭来审判普京本人和其他俄罗斯官员，从而强化了他的鹰派观点。
他说:“你们把普京的俄罗斯贴上支持恐怖主义的国家的标签，并且设立国际法庭，这样我们实际上可以像二战后那样在国际法庭上审判普京和他的亲信。”。
他表示，增加对乌克兰的援助将对中国入侵台湾的任何野心发出警告，国际社会应该准备好惩罚中国向俄罗斯提供致命援助，正如布林肯在“本周”节目中所说的那样，他们正在考虑。
“如果发生这种情况，世界需要对中国采取严厉措施。...任何援助他们的国家都应该付出沉重的代价，”格雷厄姆说。
“这就是为什么我们应该认定俄罗斯是国家支持的恐怖主义，因为如果你根据美国法律这么做，而中国提供致命武器，他们将受到制裁，”他说。
中国外交部在一份新声明中坚称，中国与俄罗斯的关系是“战略性的”，“建立在不结盟、不对抗、不针对第三国的基础上”格雷厄姆敦促他们不要越陷越深。
“对中国人来说，如果你现在跳上普京的火车，你比泥土还笨。这就像你看完电影后买了一张泰坦尼克号的船票。不要这样。在我看来，美中关系可能发生的最灾难性的事情是中国向普京及其反人类罪行提供致命武器，”他说。“这将永远改变一切。”
另外，Raddatz要求格雷厄姆对最近佐治亚州大陪审团的报告做出回应，该报告重申在2020年总统选举中没有发现“广泛的欺诈”。在认证之前，格雷厄姆被传唤并在与佐治亚州国务卿布拉德·拉芬斯佩格就2020年选举进行的电话通话后作证。
格雷厄姆告诉拉达茨，他“不担心我的证词”，并表示他同意没有重大欺诈行为，并指出他投票证明了这场比赛。
Sen. Graham pushes for F-16s to Ukraine as US declares Russian actions 'crimes against humanity'
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday pushed the Biden administration to provide more aid to Ukraine after Vice President Kamala Harris saidRussia was committing "crimes against humanity" in its invasion.
"I believe a decision will be imminent here when we get back to Washington that the administrationwill start training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16" fighter jet, Graham, a prominent defense hawk, told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz in an exclusive interview from the Munich Security Conference.
That would representa major escalation of U.S. supportand one which President Joe Bidenhas signaled reluctanceto commit to. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, appearing separately on "This Week,"didn't say whether F-16s had been approvedbut noted that proper training for the Ukrainians was also important.
"Let me just stress this: How can you call this war by Russia a crime against humanity … and not give the victim of their crime against humanity the defensive weapons they need to stop the crime? So, we need to do two things quickly: make Russia a state sponsor of terrorism under U.S. law, which would make it harder for China to give weapons to Russia, and we need to start training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 now," Graham said.
World leaders have been meeting in Munich for an annual gathering to discuss global security on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with Harris underscoring the need to stand up to authoritarian nations using "brute force."
"In the case of Russia's actions in Ukraine, we have examined the evidence, we know the legal standards, and there is no doubt: These are crimes against humanity," she said in remarks to the security conference on Saturday, rebuking Russia's repeated denials that it targets civilians and commits other atrocities.
When pressed by Raddatz on "This Week" over whether providing F-16 jets and long-range missiles to Ukraine would provoke Russian President Vladimir Putin, Graham said he was more concerned with removing Russia from Ukraine all together.
"I'm not worried about provoking Putin. I want to beat him. And how do you beat him? You beat him by giving the Ukrainians the military capability to drive the Russians out of Ukraine," he said, adding, "I see solidarity across the aisle in America and across the seas."
"Let's make sure we beat Putin in Ukraine, because he will not stop if we do not," Graham said.
He said that a defeat for Russia included them returning the Crimean Peninsula they illegally annexed in 2014. Graham pointed to a post-Soviet Union agreement in the '90s with Ukraine and other countries in which Ukraine agreed to hand over its nuclear weapons in exchange for a guaranteed set of borders.
"To not honor that commitment would be tricking the Ukraine, would be rewarding Putin for rewriting agreements involving nuclear weapons," he said.
He also doubled down on his hawkish views by calling for international tribunals to be established to try Putin himself, as well as other Russian officials.
"You label Putin's Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism [and] you create international tribunals so we actually can try Putin and his cronies in the international court like we did after World War II," he said.
He said boosting aid to Ukraine would send a warning over any ambitions Beijing may have to invade Taiwan and that the international community should be prepared to punish China for sending lethal aid to Moscow, as Blinken said on "This Week" they are considering.
"Now if that happens, the world needs to come down hard on China. ... Any country that comes to their aid should pay a heavy price," Graham said.
"That's why we should designate Russia state sponsored terrorism, because if you do that under U.S. law and China provides lethal weapons, they will get sanctioned," he said.
China's Foreign Ministry insisted in a new statement that its relationship with Russia was "strategic" and "built on the basis of non-alliance, non-confrontation and non-targeting of third countries." Graham urged them not to become more involved.
"To the Chinese, if you jump on the Putin train now, you're dumber than dirt. It would be like buying a ticket on the Titanic after you saw the movie. Don't do this. The most catastrophic thing that could happen to the U.S.-China relationship, in my opinion, is for China to give lethal weapons to Putin and his crime against humanity," he said. "That would change everything forever."
Separately, Raddatz asked Graham for his response to a recent Georgia grand jury report that reaffirmed no "widespread fraud" was found in the 2020 presidential election. Graham was subpoenaed and testified after a phone call he had with Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, about the 2020 election, before it was certified.
Graham told Raddatz he had "no concerns about my testimony" and said he agreed that there wasn't major fraud, noting that he voted to certify the race.
