I know. But you will never find a world of peoples more powerful than you is wil

I know. But you will never find a world of peoples more powerful than you is willing to sacrifice its ambitions on your behalf unless you have something to trade them. As such defense is your only viable option. The problem is a population must be able to defend itself against all forms of attack on their capital. And baiting into hazard is an attack that succeeds because people want to be baited into those hazards.
It’s not the hazarder’s responsibility – it’s the fool who is baited by it. So how do you prevent your people from taking the bait?
That’s the whole problem with defending against the abrahamic means of warfare.