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minus-squareda_cow (she/her)@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down5·29 days agoWould like if we wouldn’t be buying any weapons at all…
minus-squareNakamuraRTS@piefed.europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·29 days agoThat’s more or less what was happening last decade, look where it left us. Weakness puts you on the menu.
minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·29 days agoYup. The best guarantee of peace is the threat of overwhelming violence if someone tries to break it.
minus-squareSzewek@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·29 days agoYes! But if the others would also not buy the weapons! (May sound unrealistic, but there were deals like that in the history. Tough, but likely the only realistic pacifist way is through collaboration, not self-imposed disarmament.)
minus-squareSzewek@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-229 days ago(See the history section here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmament)
Would like if we wouldn’t be buying any weapons at all…
That’s more or less what was happening last decade, look where it left us.
Weakness puts you on the menu.
Yup. The best guarantee of peace is the threat of overwhelming violence if someone tries to break it.
Yes! But if the others would also not buy the weapons!
(May sound unrealistic, but there were deals like that in the history. Tough, but likely the only realistic pacifist way is through collaboration, not self-imposed disarmament.)
(See the history section here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmament)