The sensitive empaths who can see what is going on and warn others are also the ones who get overloaded and damaged by seeing what is going on and being done to others.
There are days when I wish it were an old fashioned kinetic war with bombs and bullets.
It would be easier, but at least, at some point, there will be a time when the lines will be officially drawn. They have to be at some point, just from a logistical standpoint.
Probably after the 'event' (whichever it will be)
it's a heck of a thing to observe.