Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Eisenhower
@vwbusguy the sentiment is commendable.
the statement ignores an essential differentiation between murder and protection, both of which take the form of killing.
every blessed weapon in service to Ukraine is essential for people to be able to eat or be housed at all.
it is invasion, and the tools of invasion, that are unconditionally evil.
not defense, or tools and acts of defense.
those are in the most literal term opposites: one evil and unnecessary. the other good and necessary.
Scott Williams 🐧
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