I also believe that the number of people dying in armed conflict us the lowest it's been.
It's odd that you say Saudis screwing with oil prices because for the world economy that is a good thing and promotes growth. (Maybe not for the earth).
A war just increases debt and creates the next war. The result of Israel being created at the end of the Second World War has led to increased tensions. The punitive penalties on Germany after ww1 led to ww2. Ww2 split of Germany led to the Cold War and is tied to the current Russian militarism.
So even assuming we make it through a world war with a useable planet and city it really just sets the stage for the next one.
The biggest thing to fix the western world would be to somehow fix the political / media / cash / propaganda problem that we have and get leaders in power who are incentivized to do what's best for people instead of getting re-elected.
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