You sound like a mouthpiece for the military industrial complex.
I have answered your question.
The end game of your position is just more and more war. There needs to be a better way.
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The end game of my position is myself alive, my family is alive, my friends are alive and my country exists
The only answer to this is weapon unfortunately, which I also hate. But there is no other way irregardless of how much people far away would like to dream, period