Because it lowers demand for the domestic nodes outside of military, making them more expensive and reducing R&D budget. Also even for non-military uses, if al

Because it lowers demand for the domestic nodes outside of military, making them more expensive and reducing R&D budget. Also even for non-military uses, if all of that market switched to foreign semis, it’d cause a lot of economic problems if we couldn’t import foreign semis any longer. Absent an embargo or war, that still gives countries that produce the better semis a lot of leverage.