There’s an argument to be made that states/nations should have some amount of self-sufficiency, or you risk running into the current issue where all of our Chin

There’s an argument to be made that states/nations should have some amount of self-sufficiency, or you risk running into the current issue where all of our Chinese import microchips are potentially compromised. I can see how Utah wouldn’t want to be entirely beholden to other states for its agriculture. That said, arguments like yours present a powerful reason not to waste resources on what is largely illusory security.