I follow the news on a Russian/Ukrainian forum. New registrations were banned in 2022 after the war began. I'm not a frequent visitor, but I went there to check this out. There were posts on Twitter where, after it became known that Graham was at that facility, people were leaving malicious comments such as, "I hope they got him." Then, when posts appeared claiming that he had died, many of those same people were shocked a few hours later because they had previously been saying that the facility had been destroyed very quickly in the attack. For example, the Iranians launched missiles at the area where Bibi had been appearing live on national television. He barely escaped, one minister was killed or injured, and we're talking about roughly two minutes later, using a ballistic missile that is significantly slower than Russian hypersonic missiles. In Ukraine, then to Poland, and after that back to the United States, with no public appearances following the visit to Ukraine, and then simply an announcement that he had died of a heart attack... Yeah, right. No government especially not the United States, which was also engaged in military action against Iran would publicly announce that one of its important politicians had been killed by the Russians on the other side of the world. That would be a major defeat requiring a response. However, the Russians could have done the same to a large number of Western politicians before. This was a message, because the United States had begun providing Ukraine with long-range missiles capable of striking Moscow and Russia's top political leadership. The message was simple: even your highest-ranking officials and politicians are not safe, so do not escalate the situation by supplying long-range missiles. If we are not safe, nobody is...
Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst, explains in the first few minutes why it's virtually impossible that he could have traveled from Kyiv back to the United States within that timeframe or only just barely. We're talking about a 71-year-old person. A transatlantic flight is physically exhausting even for young people. On top of the time-zone change, there's also another nine hours of train travel, touring a war zone, and then making the entire journey there and back. Everyone needs time to recover. That's why people usually allow a few extra days, spend the night in Poland, and stay there for at least a day or two before continuing. There's no chance that the US government is going to come out and tell the full truth. The public is given this version of the story, and that's the end of it.
What counts as ‘true documentation’ these days? A document is not necessarily true. In the present world, a document is more likely to be untrue than true. However, the schedules and timelines offered by Johnson are verifiable. Train and plane schedules are documentary evidence that are usually reasonably reliable. Generally moreso than documents provided by corrupt politicians and intelligence agents of countries involved in surreptitious wars.
