I don't think the US is ceding any ground personally. They are probably doing the research intensely but just not public all. All the research done by Nazi's w

I don't think the US is ceding any ground personally. They are probably doing the research intensely but just not public all. All the research done by Nazi's was absorbed by the US during operation paperclip. Most of those heinous nazi scientists were rewarded for their cutting edge work by the US. Just like paperclip and mkultra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra)[a] was an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), intended to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used in interrogations to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture.