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I mean, american people is as intelligent as anyone else. By the sheer number, is not rare to think that they should have more people of high training on difficult areas to master.

What happens to the US is that they "borrow" a lot of intellectual capacity from abroad, and they have been doing that for a lot of time.

Also, stealing IP and resources has been the eternal strategy of empires to build themselves, US and Europe included.