Is there anywhere a thirst for global peace, among people who are not naive lunatics? All weapons, once developed, exist, and can be used by small groups. All our technology makes asymetrical warfare more effective. It makes us less safe, over the long haul, since once created it can be duplicated. Every quantum leap forward might one day be used against us.
Why not establish a Commission on Global Peace, which looks carefully, honestly, and long term ways at how we disempower the war mongers, and create a lasting global peace?
To be sure, I am no believer in commissions, in general, which can only be as good as the people in them, but the GOAL symbolized by such a thing would be worthwhile.
Can we not make a lasting peace with China? On some level do not some large number of their leaders want a better life for their children and their nation? Would it not help if they did not need to maintain a large military? Would it not help if they were not forced to wage an internal civil war against all the enemies of their tyranny? Could they not perhaps be persuaded to rationalize and reform their internal repression if they could be convinced the United States will never be their military enemy?
And Russia: avoiding war with them is as easy as keeping the globalists away from the buttons of power.
Yes, there are random terrorists, but this is a war of information, not tanks and fighter planes.
Can we not make this an explicit goal, and can we not meet regularly with those who might be our enemies–who might justify the development of robotic squids, and weaponized microdrones, of armed robots, and everything else I don’t know about and have not yet imagined–and ask them what needs to happen for a lasting peace?
Yes, I am absolutely with the “trust but verify” camp, but Reagan oversaw a LARGE decrease in overall armaments, did he not?
Edit: I was also referencing this: https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/04/18/army-researchers-are-developing-a-self-aware-robot-squid-you-can-3d-print-in-the-field/