> It's always made me curious why foreign governments allow their critical technical infrastructure to come from other nations That was part of "end of history

> It's always made me curious why foreign governments allow their critical technical infrastructure to come from other nations That was part of "end of history" politics, that we've reached a stable democratic state nothing particularly revolutionary is going to happen, just steady prosperous growth. Once upon a time it was possible to believe that, however unlikely it seems nowadays.