Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's Secretary of State, has recently denounced the notion of "preventive war," emphasizing its potential to ignite widespread conflict. He articulated that if states were allowed to recognize a right to preventative war based on their own criteria without an overarching legal framework, the world would be at tremendous risk. Parolin expressed deep concern over the erosion of international law, where justice is often substituted with violence and the principle of the law falls prey to the might of the strongest, threatening the very fabric of peace.