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>By blocking intelligence research in the US, the US is basically ceding the ground to those competing countries on ideological grounds.

Just in the 20th century USSR similarity banned Genetics and Cybernetics. While keeping ideological purity it had to sacrifice agriculture developments and, later, computers. The Genetics alternative, funnily enough, had been Lysenkoism, which is also something we can observe in the US nowadays.



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