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.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell