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They may just have a different perspective then you.
This is a fundamentally flawed analogy because America is not the Empire that is in charge of everything.
This would be like if The Empire coexisted and traded with a plethora of other nations and now decided to build a Deathstar 2, while simultaneously stopping to pay for all the best scientists and engineers and doctors to leave those other nations and go to live in The Empire. Instead they will stay in their own nations that aren't run by an evil emperor and will instead help build them up and keep more wealth and innovation at home.
Nope. In biomedical research, the entire planets spent $60B/yr, and 2/3 came from US. Now that money is gone and other governments are not taking up the slack. It's the end of science.
Nope.
Those numbers are funding from all sources, not just government funding. None of the private funding sources in the US have disappeared.
Secondly, while the US spends the most, even as a percentage of GDP, it does not spend that much more on a per GDP basis that places like Germany and Korea. i.e. as American GDP and global power decline and other nations' rise, their biomedical r&d funding will too which will make up for the loss of American government funding.
Is anyone going to replace America? I don't think so and would we want hem to? Americans consume a lot it is the driver of their economy. But dover want to replace that?
UK, Germany have always had better success for money spent in biomedical research than the US. UK in particular does amazing things for their shit research budgets.