The businessess would only want it if it gave a profit though, and as China hasn't stopped selling RE for peaceful purposes the only way the us could get it to be profitable is by really increasing the price of the weapons they sell, or they'd need to ban the import of RE so they can be the only supplier to themselves, and I doubt the main concern of whoever gets to control the supply will have 'actually supplying it' as their main goal. Profit will be viewed as the main goal and as such the supply will likely be kept to a minimum for maximum profit for the longest possible time, all the while more and more countries that bought weapons from the empire will move to other suppliers, namely China and Russia, growing closer to them along the way.

The imperial core bourgeoisie will likely get even more of the wealth concentrated in their hands continuing to lead to instability and further loss technological or industrial strenght...