You can but the firmware that is needed to run it is American, because the hardware is American. Even if the company wants to open source it, the US government can block it in whatever country.

> You can but the firmware that is needed to run it is America

This thinking is part of the reason for the momentum behind RISC-V and LoongArch.

RISC-V is a lot like Linux in that it benefits from International cooperation and innovation while offereing the ability to seize control if needed.

But you are correct that even an open ISA does not protect you from a proprietary hardware implementation at the chip or firmware level that you still do not control. This requires additional open standards.

Bigger picture, it means "domestic" chip design and fabrication capabilities. The world is just starting to wrap its mind around this. But again, RISC-V is really helping here. There are emerging RISC-V chip capabilities in Europe and even in places like India for example. It is easy to laugh off these efforts as non-competitive. But not only will many of them find niches where they will be economically pheasible but they offer an important backstop to geopolitical risk and the flexibility to at least of enough domestic capability to keep the lights on if needed. Building and rolling out a RISC-V ecosystem will take years or decades. But once there, it can be pivotied to or maintained on any RISC-V chip. As long as you have the ability to produce some kind of RISC-V chip, this ecosystem can never really be taken away from you.

And RISC-V offers the same kind of international collaboration that allows both pooling of efforts and protection from reliance on any one actor or region that could become a political threat.

RISC-V understands its role in this regard. It too was an "American" technology but Linux International was setup in Switzerland for a reason.

Reduce where you can right now, plan to fix what you can't replace right now.

Some improvement is far better than no improvement.