Also federally defunded generations of scientists so that other countries will benefit from their expertise, ensuring that other global powers will be leading the charge and reaping the rewards of new, lucrative technologies.
Lot more money and power going byebye for a lot longer than just the current ledger.
Unless that cat is German or Italian or Brazilian, Spanish, Egyptian and a bunch of other countries where cats have less than nine lives and that octopus will have bullets to spare.
Taiwan's response:
"The...fishwife's gutter talk is boring in the extreme"