[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 205 (Wednesday, December 13, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H6925]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   NO ENDGAME FOR THE WAR IN UKRAINE

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, over the next month, there is going to 
be more discussion with regard to what is going on in Ukraine and 
whether we should have more Ukraine aid. I will emphasize, again, there 
is not enough discussion about how this war is going to end because 
eventually all wars end.
  Madam Speaker, I think if you talk to the Biden administration, they 
have no plan nor vision as to what that war is going to look like a 
month or a year from now. One thing I will point out is that you are 
dealing with two countries who already have a shortage of young people 
and who should want this war to end. Ukraine has the second-lowest 
birth rate in the world. There is also a low birth rate in Russia, and 
a lot of people are moving to the United States.
  During the Korean war, a bloodier war than this, President Eisenhower 
had a negotiation with the North Koreans and Red China, arguably the 
two most evil regimes in the last century. Nevertheless, he didn't say: 
Oh, we can't negotiate with Putin.
  He negotiated with completely evil people, and tens of thousands of 
Koreans are probably alive today because of what President Eisenhower 
did.

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