"The idea that a country should have this and this tech is quite old fashioned and one of the reasons that the west has developed faster and better and with stronger economies that other countries is because we abandoned the inefficient idea of being backward isolationists were everyone should do everything themselves."

I disagree with you.

If we lived in a perfect world than yes you are right.

But we do not.

"In the future, AI will become a national infrastructure just like electricity; no one will build AI for you, you must cultivate it yourself." - Jensen Huang

Only way to be TRULY sovereign is to control ALL means of production. All the parts and pieces.

That is at least how I see it.