Then factorio dev blog comes in and spend months optimizing the tok of one broken gear in the conveyor belt to slightly improve efficiency.

Incorrect, ukraine currently has more production capacity than money to pay for it. So since they are cash limited, exporting would help ukraine and get them more money to build drones for themselves.

Small means they can be cooled down quickly and easily and usually the modern ones can do it passively without needing power for these very small ones.

Not really, she is in the main party and she is antichina and wants to spend more on military defense.