Comment by teiferer
8 hours ago
It's not the only way.
An alternative is to organize the world in a way that makes it not just unnecessary but even more so detrimental to said soldier's interests to launch a missle towards your house in the first place.
The sentence you wrote wouldn't be something you write about (present day) German or French soldiers. Why? Because there are cultural and economic ties to those countries, their people. Shared values. Mutual understanding. You wouldn't claim that the only way to prevent a Frenchmen to kill you is to kill them first.
It's hard to achieve. It's much easier to just mark the strong man, fantasize about a strong military with killing machines that defend the good against the evil. And those Hollywood-esque views are pushed by populists and military industries alike. But they ultimately make all our societies poorer, less safe and arguably less moral.
I'm in Ukraine now.
Tell me how your ideals apply to russia, today.
In the short run, today, you of course have to shoot back. What else can you do..
In the long run, just piling up more military is not the solution.
> In the long run, just piling up more military is not the solution.
Except it would have prevented the invasion in the first place.
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