Should weaker countries invest more in their militaries?

[Mr Khan]

If you build up your military, you have a temptation to use it. Like when Saakashvili spent all that time beefing up the Georgian military, what did he end up doing? Provoking Russia and getting his ass kicked. This isn't to say that he shouldn't have a military at all, but all the saber-rattling that inevitably comes with a military buildup will come with political pressure to justify that buildup. Russia is similarly guilty in terms of that war developing, since Putin needed to justify his own efforts to restore Russian military prominence throughout the past decade