Preston Stewart

It doesn't do any good to to blow up a Russian apartment complex with the one munition you have.

You'd rather hit the command post.

But it's not entirely because it's tactical as well.

There's a part of that.

Yeah, I mean, I'd intertwine those there, but no doubt Ukraine has made mistakes.

There has been collateral damage, but by and large, the targeting of civilians is a one-sided issue in this war.

I mean, these refineries are huge, right?

Like massive facilities.

So if you just hit the side of it, that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

And this is this is a deep one.

So we could go for hours on this one, just to be clear.

But at a high level, the best way to frame this is at the beginning of the war, Russia and Ukraine started fighting.

Russia wanted to achieve air superiority.

So shut down the skies.

They run control over Ukraine like we did in Iraq and Afghanistan and to a degree did in Iran.

They did not achieve that.

What that led to was rather positional ground warfare.

A lot of artillery strikes.

And if you recall at the beginning of the war, a lot of the conversation was, can the United States or can anybody produce as many artillery rounds as Russia?

That was the calculation.