Preston Stewart

But to me at least, it came across as very professional.

Every time, every interaction.

And I want to stress, this wasn't like go sit down with the –

Brigade commander or something like we would just randomly bump into units and like go to a drone facility and talk to a private that's building the drone.

So we got a pretty wide range and very professional, very just committed to seeing this through, recognizing that it might it might not be over in the near future.

Well, I think this goes back to the initial beginning of the war.

I think there's bad messaging in the United States under the Biden administration about what to expect and why we were doing this.

And that just became harder and harder over time.

So I think there is a disconnect with the American people.

I don't know if that

gap can be bridged at this point.

And we get distracted.

Now we've got the Iran war.

That clearly has more of a direct impact on us if for no other reason than we have our sons and daughters in harm's way.

I think the message that I would try to get across is Ukraine is not asking for our soldiers.

They're not asking for us to fight their war.

They're not even asking for us to fight alongside them.

But allowing them, providing for them the opportunity to defend themselves reduces the likelihood that we would end up in that situation.

So they have a fight on their doorstep.

What can we do to make them successful?