I just think from my talks that US is still capable of building some decent shit and must be reverse engineering stuff too, but I don't think the gap is so wide; nor our production w/out a war economy is so great. The geopolitics would not at all be playing out as they are if that were truly the case. People see a bunch of tech shit and it is their avenue of autism, but reality does not reflect those things on terms of actors that do know FAR more than any of us.