Sen. LindseyGrahamSC's decision to stand by his call for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be assassinated is being met with pushback from his Republican colleagues.
Graham told reporters that he hopes Putin will be taken out of power via assassination or a trial for war crimes over his decision to launch an unprovoked military attack against Ukraine, at times deliberately targeting civilian sites. “I think the world is better off without Putin,” Graham said at a press conference shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to Congress. “The sooner the better. And I don't care how we do it.
While Republican lawmakers said they agree with the sentiment, some said voicing the sentiment publicly could escalate the war in Ukraine. Rep. Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican and Air Force veteran who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, said he would have used different rhetoric but hopes the Russian people can oust Putin in a similar fashion to Nikita Khrushchev's removal in 1964.
Multiple GOP lawmakers noted that an assassination of Putin would be a violation of the Lieber Code, which states, “The law of war does not allow proclaiming either an individual belonging to the hostile army, or a citizen, or a subject of the hostile government, an outlaw, who may be slain without trial by any captor, any more than the modern law of peace allows such intentional outlawry; on the contrary, it abhors such outrage.
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