Glenn Grothman: “My next topic for tonight is a topic in which not a lot of progress has been made in the last 2 weeks, but I continue to…”

“My next topic for tonight is a topic in which not a lot of progress has been made in the last 2 weeks, but I continue to believe people in this body or the press corps should be turning up the heat a little bit on our current administration. I have talked before about the potentially huge problems we could have in Ukraine. We are dealing with a very advanced country in Russia, a country with nuclear submarines, a country with the ability to shut down your electric grid, and no progress is being made toward some sort of peace agreement. This war has now gone on for over a year. I think there are, sadly, some people in this town who wouldn't mind if it goes on another 2 or 3 years. The additional cost, as far as monetary cost, is a scandal in its own right, but that is not as horrible as the huge cost in human suffering and death that every war has. I have talked before about the fact that Ukraine has the second lowest birth rate of any country its size in the world, behind only South Korea. Russia itself has had a big immigration problem in which people are leaving their country. I have been at the southern border and heard stories of young Russians coming here, so it should be particularly easy to negotiate some sort of deal. The United States is in a position to negotiate that deal, but certainly other countries that we are friendly with; Israel, Turkiye, or France, could be prodded to work toward some sort of peace deal on humanitarian reasons, if none other.…”