If it really costs tens of billions of dollars to make then it’s trivial to make a decision as a society about whether or not to build it. Nothing that costs t

If it really costs tens of billions of dollars to make then it’s trivial to make a decision as a society about whether or not to build it. Nothing that costs ten billion dollars gets built without the explicit or implicit consent of the public. Internationally? If it’s a big enough deal the deterrent is strategic counter value. We’re doing this deliberately. Maybe that’s good, maybe it’s bad, but it’s on purpose and it’s dishonest to say otherwise.