[lo_zamoyski]

This is true. We have a choice...in principle.

But in practice, it's like stopping an arms race.

[hollerith]

Which arms race? The nuclear arms race of the Cold War? That one got stopped.

[thatguy0900]

It's hard to say the nuclear arms race is stopped when the US actively bombed a countries nuclear processing plants recently, and the US is also talking about building the Golden dome.