No it's also just to deny those countries resources to come after the rest of us. We don't sell them weapons, and we try to limit dual-use technology from bein

No it's also just to deny those countries resources to come after the rest of us. We don't sell them weapons, and we try to limit dual-use technology from being freely available. Defense tech uses a lot of open source software and commercially available software - letting a regime simply buy technological advantage it can't cultivate is a good way to lose that advantage and then also lose the culture which can create it.