I say you got to get your own icebreakers, and if you're a state, you can be part of the deal. But if you're a separate country, you've got to get your own icebreakers. Russia, as you know, has about 40 of them, and we have one big icebreaker. But that whole area is becoming very important and for a lot of reasons. The routes are. Are, you know, very direct to Asia, to Russia, and you have ships all over the place, and we have to have protection. (31:47–31:54)
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Asserts that Russia has about 40 icebreakers, while the U.S. has one.
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