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“I thank my friend, Mr. Costa, for yielding this time. I thank my friend and the ranking member, Mr. Turner, for his role in bringing this to the floor. Mr. Speaker, as has been said over and over again, Vladimir Putin made a terrible strategic and tragic miscalculation by illegally invading the sovereign and democratic nation of Ukraine. His false justification for that invasion was the supposed threat posed by NATO expansion. His other false claim was that Russian Ukrainians were being terrorized and threatened. Neither of those allegations was true. Now, his actions have led directly, as Mr. Turner just pointed out, and as Mr. Costa pointed out, to the opposite of what he intended. That is, we are going to be adding two extraordinary members of the European community, two countries that have shared our values, our democratic values, our nation of laws values, and our humanitarian values with us for literally over half a century. Together, Finland and Sweden will add substantial capabilities to NATO's collective defense and make the Baltic region much more secure against Russian aggression. But much more than that, they will add value, because of their values, to our alliance. Mr. Speaker, I was in Denmark in April, meeting with senior officials.…”