The civil world, in general, tends to shield defenders. It's likely that a country being assaulted will have many people willing to help it with chis, if it com

The civil world, in general, tends to shield defenders. It's likely that a country being assaulted will have many people willing to help it with chis, if it comes to that. Aggressors, condemned by the world, are the people who need to bootstrap their own capabilities, & will most strongly need & be able to leverage open hardware. I don't like it but this is still my read here. And we still definitely definitely need to do openhardware. But these are new relevant factors.