Preston Stewart
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We're very much head down.
We've got a job to do and we're going to keep doing that job.
And as you go up the chain to the politicians that are trying to solicit more investment into their country and to try to paint a good picture.
So I understand it, but very optimistic at the higher levels, I would say.
I was just going to ask it.
Where's the line between Russian exports and Russian domestic consumption?
How does that play in here?
I think there's definitely some symbolism here.
We know how important Crimea is to Putin and to Russia.
But there's also this dilemma that Ukraine is forcing upon Russia by going after Crimea, and that's the relocation of their air defense assets, whether it's their large manufactured Tor, Pansy, or things like that, or their mobile air defense teams.
The simplest way to describe it is there are too many targets inside of Russia and not enough air defense systems.
Ukraine has been expanding the range and the quantity of their drones.
So I think there's a refinery north of Moscow got hit overnight like that hadn't.
I don't know that that had been targeted before.
Now they have to defend that.
So forcing the conversation around Crimea, opening up the roads, keeping the bridge safe, keeping the airfield safe and keeping the citizens feeling safe and supplied there is going to eat up some of Russia's resources.
And those have to come from somewhere else.
I mean, they are manufacturing new things.
They do have drone interceptors.