“Hopefully, I’m not being too naive here, but why are either of us flushing all of this money and effort into weapons that we’re never going to use?”
I guess we’re having to re-debate why having a good deterrent is a good idea when another country (actually, now, other COUNTRIES) can blow us off the map.
“when another country (actually, now, other COUNTRIES) can blow us off the map”
Nobody with knowledge agrees with that.
Nobody.
last Arms race we had was with the USSR. They lost bad, broke up into smaller countries and Berlin Wall fell. Socialist countries can never beat Capitalist countries in economics.