It is evident that these global issues require united and sustainable solutions, but this article aims to identify how the state of global politics and power may shift in the age of resource anxiety. Control over water and food sources is a form of geopolitical currency.

Are we killing because this is the General’s order? Are we letting civilians die because we elude our conscience by telling ourselves “That is just a casualty”? Is the endgame sought in “how many killed” or are we all just too hot-blooded to end any game at all?

War can no longer be seen as a local failure; it is reproducing itself within a system that has failed to regulate it. And democracies, far from being immune, are active participants. The challenge is no longer just to stop a war. It is to prevent more from joining the wave.