Dumbest defense commentator be like.
Seriously, a foreign policy is based on CAPABILITY, not on intention. You can be the most pacifist and kind nation on the planet, but if you cannot defend yourself, then you WILL get attacked, or subdued diplomatically at least. I think it's naive to say that being strong can ever be a bad thing, on extreme cases you see that countries who gave up their nukes always immediately got f*cked over by great powers (despite the rhetoric of "peaceful" nuclear non-proliferation). The reality is that reality itself is not a constant, you can shape reality, and it is always changing, and to shape reality and react to the changing situations, you need strength.