If Europeans don’t make weapons of war, someone will eventually conquer them.

And y’know, we have yet to see open, full-scale war between atomic powers. Nuclear deterrence seems to work (for now).

If Russia stopped the invasion there would be no need for using the weapons of war. Right now Russia is the one ensuring weapons of war are needed and used.

Well… has that happened with all the other weapons of war?

I mean I get the sentinment, and in localized situations this makes sense to a degree. OTOH you have all the nuclear missiles that were taken apart again or just turned to rust. Or the Zumwaldt class, which is just how you glue money bills together in the shape of a ship. Or the insane mountain of stuff that was never used and mothballed.

Just here to remind everyone that this includes nukes.

Donald Trump backed us out of the Iran Nuclear Deal, making it much more likely for Iran to develop nukes. And now that Trump will most likely abandon Ukraine, Europe will be looking to increase their nuclear arsenal as a deterrent against Russia.

So there’s about to be a whole lot more nukes in a much more volatile world.

All thanks to an anti-democratic felon rapist who America can’t seem to put in the rear-view mirror. Great country!!!

Sadly it jusy means that countries who fuck around or get too drunk on their power will have to be brought in line swiftly and harshly and in a way that permanently incapacitates them to continue screwing around.

Polite global society is an armed global society and I’m actually not being ironic here. Bullies only understand force often through specificaly tailored deterrence mechanisms, look at “sovergn” citizens. Gotta make it not worth the time to try, if there’s a chance they succeed they will take it because it often has no downside to try