Nat Towson

But, you know, essentially seems to be trying to distance himself from Ukraine at the summit right now.

Is that...

I guess I don't understand enough quite about military operations, like how much of that is top down from his philosophy and how much of the it does that restrict the ability to provide aid to Ukraine, both from our military and from, you know, other aid operations that still require visas and other forms of transportation that go through the federal government.

And that's pure loyalty to Putin?

Or what's his state – I mean I know he doesn't have to state logic, but what is your calculation as to why the veto is such a foregone conclusion?

Okay, so then let me ask you one more question, which is when American companies learn to profit on something, they refuse to let it go ever until forced to.

So is there a risk of letting the private sector increase their grips on the war machine, profit from it more?

and be unwilling to relinquish those profits because these are publicly traded companies i don't think i understand yes i guess i'm questioning does this create does this create a uh vulnerability either militarily or just culturally to like does this move us towards a culture of profiting off of war if our like is trump's unwillingness to help allowing for a new industry to

of profiting off war to emerge?

This is just the emerging market for it, unfortunately or fortunately.

Yeah, good thing that's not also tumbling towards autocracy.

Oh, just because he's the world's most famous white supremacist.

If only Elon Musk would become an alcoholic and have a panic attack and see the error of his ways like Tony Stark.

Preston Stewart, thank you so much on that note for joining us.

This has been a truly enlightening discussion.

I've learned a lot.

And Chad, also, thank you for humanizing a lot of this for me.

I think this was I hope that you guys were able to talk on your level as well.

This has been really interesting.

I hope you can come back and join us.