(and we have as much Russian tech in our lives as Chinese tech-near zero)
Iran with 7 times STEM graduates was on the verge of financial collapse pre Biden energy policy.
The doom crowd needs better doom.
The US is as mighty vs the world as ever-
hence always the same end $200,000,000,000,000 debt and no threat to the dollar exists.
The USA can print dollars, but not artillery shells.
That’s the problem.
Forget financial collapse, people in the USSR were starving in the 1930’s. But the USSR 1930’s industrialization enabled them to outproduce the Germans and win the WW2 war in the East.