If we were to refuse help except from sources which meet our moral approval we should have very little help indeed. During World War 2, the arch anti-Communist Winston Churchill made an alliance with Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Unin to fight Hitler. So if you want to get on a moral high horse be strong enough to do without help.

One of the unappreciated luxuries which a power with a large margin of strength can indulge in is the ability to be high minded and magnanimous. Unilateral self-weakening and high mindedness are mutually exclusive. They are contradictory. Cutting the margins down the bare minimum, with just enough energy, just enough military insurance, just enough savings will eventually put one in a position of one day being forced over the edge. And on the day when you are fighting for survival every corner will be cut, every pretense of high mindedness will be ruthlessly thrust aside and no consideration whatsoever will be shown to the foe.

Grayson can sue military contractors because his life doesn’t depend on it, except of course, when it does.