Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,

It all started by tricking Trump into thinking that Ukraine has trillions of dollars' worth of rare earths...

RT published two critical pieces about Lindsey Graham, "World War mastermind: Here's America's most dangerous person" and "Graham threatens Putin: US war hawk escalates rhetoric in alignment with military lobby", shortly after Trump announced his new three-pronged approach to Ukraine. This analysis here earlier mentioned how Graham was one of those responsible for manipulating Trump against Putin, while the present one will elaborate on how that came to be given the prominent role that he played.

Graham is the defense industry's darling whom they've generously donated to over the years as documented by Yahoo Finance, The Intercept, and Sputnik, et al. Forbes also reported on the donations that he's received from over a dozen billionaires. The first group donates to him since they have facilities in his state of South Carolina while the second does so since they've invested in those companies. Graham is suspected of investing in them too in what's since become a toxic symbiotic relationship.