On the recordJuly 19, 2022
I will talk about a variety of issues tonight. I will start one more time. I direct this talk not only to the Chair, not only to my colleagues in the legislature, but also the press corps that normally doesn't cover this because I think I am going to touch on some stories that ought to appear in the press corps but for whatever reason they don't. The first thing, and I have addressed it several times from this microphone, is what is our goal in Ukraine, okay? It would seem to me a good goal would be to end the war. We have a lot of Ukrainian troops who have died; we have a lot of Russian troops who have died; we have a lot of Ukrainian civilians who have died; and it seems to me that every week or month that the war goes by, those numbers get greater and greater. Not only that, but particularly Russia is also a country with access to horrific weapons, and every week or month that goes by, the chances that eventually some horrific weapons will have to be used goes up. {time} 2015 I will also point out with regard to these two countries, not that losing any young life isn't a tragedy, but it would seem to me there would be special tragedies in these countries because both countries have low birth rates and declining numbers of young people. For two countries that have been around--I believe Ukraine has been--for millennia, we would kind of like to see these countries continue to exist into the future.…
