When War Arrives, People Must Survive
The prospect of global war is often analysed through military capability and geopolitical alignment, yet its most immediate and enduring consequences are human. Markets may react, reprice, and eventually attempt recovery, but people absorb the collapse in real time. The growing risk of a large-scale global conflict exposes a deeper fragility within the modern economic system: prosperity is not resilient—it is contingent on peace. As supply chains fracture, energy systems are weaponised, and financial infrastructure becomes a target, the assumption that markets can withstand systemic shock begins to unravel. This editorial reframes the threat of global war not as a distant geopolitical scenario, but as a human crisis embedded within economic collapse—where survival, dignity, and stability are no longer guaranteed, and where the cost of failure is measured not in indices, but in lives.
