It' not like kicking a puppy, you're right.
It's like stomping on a roosterroach.
Can we have some sort of, "We won't help you in offensive war, but if it is to defend yourself, we will help," Alliance?
Oh yeah, we start building these:

These are very easy to make, have strong armor, and we figured out to mine some sort of new...
Electronic Material? We really don't know. It cloaks the ship of infra-red heat, and it kills guided missiles. The mineral is VERY rare, and only 1000 of them have been found inside a hollow volcano.
We test to put it inside the vehicles. It works. Though, only 1% of these planes have that mineral, so the rest have generic ECM Jammer and Flares.