You can, if you’re part of a large military alliance, allowing each member to contribute a little to get a lot of defense capability. Accumulation of weapons makes military escalation more likely. And all these “defensive” weapons can be turned to an offensive any second.
Okay, sure - but you still have to have robust manufacturing capabilities that you can, at least, scale up at short notice (c.f. artillery shells).
My point was, really, that I see a lot of people trying to simultaneously hold the opinions that they certainly wouldn’t work for arms companies because the entire industry is evil, but also, we should make sure to arm Ukraine.
You can, if you’re part of a large military alliance, allowing each member to contribute a little to get a lot of defense capability. Accumulation of weapons makes military escalation more likely. And all these “defensive” weapons can be turned to an offensive any second.
Okay, sure - but you still have to have robust manufacturing capabilities that you can, at least, scale up at short notice (c.f. artillery shells).
My point was, really, that I see a lot of people trying to simultaneously hold the opinions that they certainly wouldn’t work for arms companies because the entire industry is evil, but also, we should make sure to arm Ukraine.
I see