Hofmaimaier@feddit.org to YUROP@feddit.orgEnglish · edit-23 months agoBuy me!feddit.orgimagemessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up1144arrow-down12cross-posted to: noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up1142arrow-down1imageBuy me!feddit.orgHofmaimaier@feddit.org to YUROP@feddit.orgEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square13linkfedilinkcross-posted to: noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
minus-squareda_cow (she/her)@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·3 months agoWould like if we wouldn’t be buying any weapons at all…
minus-squareNakamuraRTS@piefed.europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·3 months 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-up2·3 months agoYup. The best guarantee of peace is the threat of overwhelming violence if someone tries to break it.
minus-squareSzewek@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 months 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-up1·edit-23 months 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)