With state support (even Russia), they should be able to replace or workaround whatever built in chip is preventing this gear from starting up.
I'm going to hazard a guess that they'll have a difficult time defeating the disabling because of Western sanctions making equipment and parts difficult to obtain. They may have the know-how, but not the necessary materiel.
Thanks for allowing our industry to move offshore.
Even assuming this all started with Reagan (who had a Democratic Senate by the way), his term of office ended in 1988 and there have been three Democratic Presidents since then, some of whom had a Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress for some of their terms.
I must be one of them. I ran a speed test on my phone a couple days ago and the download rate was 487 mbps.
What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.