The US is fortunate to have proxies that will endure war. Plenty of US soldiers have died keeping the forces of evil at bay. We have far too many pro-Russia traitors and terrorist sympathizers in our own country...

Um, Putin has no intention of rebuilding the USSR. That's brain dead cold War propaganda. And Ukraine is not our ally. They will be just fine after the war is over, prolonging it is just throwing away Ukrainian lives for nothing.

@Druvius We disagree.

How about the practical use of security or hunting. Big oof

@Tejas No, not the same sort of ammunition. And in the no doubt intended metaphor, bullets would stand for bombs , shells tanks and warplanes etc. etc..

And just think. If a tiny minute fraction of one percent of all the money spent on wars, was spent on hunting weapons, then every farmer in the third world, could be given a weapon to protect the crops they need to prevent their communities starving.

@Fernapple you can use pretty much all military cartridges and calibers for hunting. Not including ammo for machinery, but for firearms yes. You can hunt with 5.56 and 308 even 50bmg. Somebody has to make military gear, equipment, explosives and vehicles. And I'm sure those people are happy they have jobs.

@Tejas Yes, that is perhaps true. But I think that is perhaps taking a literal interpretation of the quote, to perhaps, a childishly simplistic degree, since it is obvious that it is the purpose for which they are made and sold that makes all the difference, and I am sure that the creator of the idea was well aware of that.
Although certainly the volume production, will make the perhaps a little cheaper, but most of that volume will still be wasted on useless things.