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So if you where living in Nazi Germany you still saying these words?

I know a nation need to be powerful to defend it self from evil but you don't have to be evil murdering millions of people because you don't like their faith.

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I'm just stating the obvious - wars are inevitable and hence every nation is directing significant ressources to self defense (and quite a lot to offense too).

What does it have to do with Nazi Germany ?

Related to the supposed inevitability of war AND nazi Germany, I recommend Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke. It’s a good catalog of the choices, both economic and philosophical, on all sides, leading up to it (and contrasted with pacifists).

I think it's a lot more nuanced than this. Defense can be perceived as threatening and cause others to increase their defense, as per Balance of Threat theory and the security dilemma, creating a feedback loop (arms race) that leads to a lose-lose situation, primarily for the weak, but also eventually for the strong.

I am not advocating against defense spending as a category. I am saying it needs to be done skilfully and as a last resort, with the understanding that it is only coherent in a world without a unipolar security architecture, and is therefore hopefully temporary.

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