The US President is labouring under the delusion that the world cannot reinvent most of the technology that the US currently supplies. Or that the US can enforce its patents, many of which regularly get struck down even in US courts, on others through force.
Somebody tell him about Operation Paperclip. The entire US missile and space program was born out of the German V-2 rockets. The US rescued Nazi scientists, gave them US citizenship and put them to work building rockets in America.
Your lead isn't going to be there forever. You tell people they can't access something, they will find ways around it. During the cold war, if America didn't give a nation certain tech, they would align with Russia and get the same thing (see the Indian space and nuclear programs).
Somebody tell him about Operation Paperclip. The entire US missile and space program was born out of the German V-2 rockets. The US rescued Nazi scientists, gave them US citizenship and put them to work building rockets in America.
Your lead isn't going to be there forever. You tell people they can't access something, they will find ways around it. During the cold war, if America didn't give a nation certain tech, they would align with Russia and get the same thing (see the Indian space and nuclear programs).