Humanity goes to save something by going to damage others...
...but also I'm not saying it's always possible to be perfect (well maybe I think it is possible lol... but everyone has to melt all that mettle back down and focus on feeding on each other!)
...so anyway building war machines seems to me as something encouraging the brain a bit less and maybe real peace is and never was on the table...
In my naive mode I think people at the top might want peace and don't mind equalising power... but then I realise no it's pretending again and they simply don't have the skills and inside this mentality already hard to get out apart from some kind of 'love' reset!
Yeah call me any names but how else to get out of building more and more weapons, and then pretending to be peace within Europe while doing economical war (all the same!)
I think we have to 'hit' people back with more than tanks, planes, laws, restrictions, land and food monopoly, etc.... it's going to need a shit ton of love and tactical brains to avoid bastards and even absorb them somehow...
and then if something extra-terrestrial / god-like wanted to do the rest clean this planet of us I wouldn't say no!