The thing is the phrase is used to justify using questionable means to achieve noble goals, while the villain who represents this viewpoint is anything but. This is even repeated often enough to the point of being Arc Words of Case 3 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Dual Destinies.
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Combine this with the fact that ever since Ace Combat 5, Belka - the aforementioned only country known to have nuclear weapons - has in some way or another turned out to be The Man Behind the Man for every single bad thing that's happened in the series since, even retroactively, and the message turns from a valid "nukes are bad because they have the potential to destroy the world" to a simplistic and childlike "nukes are bad because only bad people use them". Even worse, the various super weapons that are supposed to serve as a deterrent fail as such for a variety of reasons, typically because nobody outside its country of origin knows about it until it's used to fire the opening shots of a war or pulled out to turn the tide of a war that's gone badly, completely defeating the point of a deterrent. the Aurelia-Leasath War in Ace Combat X or the Anean Continental War of Ace Combat 6 both taking place right next to the respective America and Russia superpower stand-ins).
However, the wars in this series break out every five or so years because nuclear proliferation doesn't exist in its universe (only one country in the series is known to have developed, much less used, nuclear weapons), on top of everyone suffering from Bystander Syndrome and completely refusing to involve themselves even to broker a truce in a war directly along their border (e.g. The games are known for carrying the theme that nuclear weapons are bad.
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