> ... intended to bolster resilience and deter aggression, it also makes war increasingly difficult to avoid. As economic forces and preparations for conflict are set in motion, they create a momentum that increases the costs of demobilization and makes peace harder to maintain, leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy of war.

Really can't follow you there. Is this your very personal opinion or are there political science/ economic sources to back this up?

War is primarily a means of politics as Clausewitz stated in 'On War'.

Economics cannot deter aggression if it is politically so desired.

Never has.

What it can do, and what it did in any war, even the Cold War is that short of any one party purely overwhelming another by sheer force, the party who can sustain economic troubles and losses longer wins.

And this is what this is about.

Economic divestment does not in any way, shape or form become a "self-fulfilling prophecy" for war.

But if it came to war, one side is gonna run out of money and production capacity first.