[Jumper]

And DOW provided the gun powder that allowed both sides to fight WWI into early 1917....

[donmeaker]

And the Japanese allowed Lend Lease shipments to Russia through Vladivostok for most of the WWII.

The US had to pay Mauser royalties on the Springfield Rifle.

The Luftwaffe paid license fees to hamilton standard for variable pitch propellor mechanisms. And your point? Should Ham Standard have told the Germans not to pay?