It's a synthesis. War is bad because it detracts from the purity of thinking about how cool planes are.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/hayao-miyazaki...

The Gundam meme is an over-simplification; Tomino is moralistic but he's far too weird to just have a normal moral like that. Typical Tomino morals are like "all old people are evil, including myself", "we should have a matriarchy", and whatever Brain Powerd was about.