It seems preemptive to frame a future war as the fault of people speculating about the possibility of a future war. Speculating is not "jumping to war as the fi

It seems preemptive to frame a future war as the fault of people speculating about the possibility of a future war. Speculating is not "jumping to war as the first option", as that implies a desire to enact, not a speculation of the future (and it's unclear what "first option" means here). You've made that leap explicit by simply stating it as a question in your parenthetical.