[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 37 (Monday, February 27, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H886]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      DEMOCRACY OR AUTHORITARIANS

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I am grateful to serve as 
chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, also known as the 
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
  Last week, in Vienna, all democracies of the 57-member Parliamentary 
Assembly unanimously supported Ukraine and condemnation of war criminal 
Putin.
  The world understands there is competition between democracies with 
rule of law opposed by authoritarians with rule of gun. War criminal 
Putin is sacrificing young Russians for oil, money, and power for 
himself.
  Ukraine represents peace through strength and must be victorious in 
this conflict to avoid the Chinese Communist Party invasion of Taiwan 
and to stop the Iranian regime as it develops intercontinental 
ballistic missiles to vaporize Israel and bring mass murder to America.
  America is not alone in understanding freedom is not free. The 
European Union has provided $54 billion to Ukraine, and recently, 
Norway authorized another $7 billion and Japan another $5 billion. Over 
52 nations are promoting eventual peace through strength for Ukraine.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, who successfully protected 
America for 20 years, as the global war on terrorism continues moving 
from the Afghanistan safe haven to America.

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