Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that President Trump “for some reason has a hard time pushing back against [Russian President Vladimir] directly” and needs to take a harder stance against Russia.
“The problem is that Russia is running wild, whatever we are doing is not working and the president for some reason has a hard time pushing back against Putin,” Graham told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace.
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“This is the eighties to me all over. I can tell you what Ronald Reagan did. Every time the Russians tried to advance their military technology, we one-upped them. Every time the Russians started running wild throughout the world, Reagan pushed back,” Graham said. “If I were Trump, I’d look at the Reagan playbook and economically isolate Russia.”
To hit Russia effectively, Graham said, Trump needs to go after Russia’s oil and gas industry which is Russia’s main economic sector.
“I would study every recipient of Russian oil and gas and see if we could find ways to supply those countries with oil and gas from a source outside of Russia,” Graham said.
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