Do you really think the capitalists themselves fully understand their inhumanity or evil or the destructive potential of even a single nuclear bomb? That’s mostly or partially a rhetorical question than a literal one.

Building up nuclear weapons is to safeguard and reduce the chance of this conflict escalating, or at least scaring the imperialists into being slightly more reasonable.

War isn’t a bed of roses, and obviously all of this will be incredibly dangerous and expensive and soul-wrenching.

But the west NEEDS the global south to agonize and belly-ache over the morality of all this, because if we don’t, then we all but won already, given the superiority of socialism’s drive and production over capitalism. Refusing to play their game gets us all killed, and I refuse to have the Global South be victim-blamed, when it’s the imperialist nutjobs forcing us all into this situation.

No one is saying to approach this with no safeguards or extensive processes, but if we aren’t collectively willing to do whatever it takes, we have already lost. Do you really think the bad guys aren’t itching to obliterate all of humanity if they think they have no other option? They have to be beaten down and outmatched before they can strike.

They have a point though. The capitalists primarily care about dollar signs and weapons

Meritocracy is often used as a buzz word by neoliberals, but its not inherently a negative dog-whistling term. Capitalism’s “meritocracy” is primarily through finances and exploitation.

Its arguable that China is more of a meritocracy than capitalist states, except meritocracy is about legitimate skill, intelligence, historical material analysis, speaking to and deriving public policy from the proletariat, and arguing your points.