On the recordJuly 17, 2023
I would ask the President or the Members of this body to weigh in with the President and try to come to some sort of conclusion on the war with Ukraine. It seems to me that there are two groups: people who want us to pull out and people who want us to be all in for years and years. However, the longer this war drags on, the worse long-term relationships get between Russia and the United States. Russia has a very low birthrate and has had a lot of their young people leave for the United States and other parts of the world recently. Ukraine has the second lowest birthrate in the world. Neither of these countries can afford to lose any more of their young people to this war. The sooner the war wraps up, the better. I am very disappointed that the press is not asking questions of the Biden administration and that the Biden administration seems completely uninterested in negotiating some settlement of the war. I am aware of the fact that the U.S. cannot appear an impartial broker, but we should strongly encourage Turkiye, Israel, or France to step in and try to negotiate an end to this war. I do not know why it seems like the Biden administration does not want it to end. ____________________
