Post-war institutions—NATO, the UN Security Council, the ICC, and the ICJ—were designed to safeguard the world, yet they remain vulnerable to the very forces they were meant to contain. Political donations from war-profiteering elites, member-state self-interest, and slow, consensus-driven decision-making leave them ill-equipped to restrain rapid escalation. Ironically, bodies intended to prevent catastrophe now contribute to systemic risk. The world, it seems, still reels under the shadow of the apocalyptic horsemen.
