I say B because you need food
The two different goals that the criminal justice has are to prevent crime and reform the offenders. the first aim is to prevent crime from happening in the first place with the use of general deterrence in hopes that before committing people will weigh the pros and cons of the action. the second aim is to reform the offenders by changing the stimuli that caused them to commit a crime in order to ensure that they become productive, law-abiding members of society.
Imaginary war is a psychological warfare but in the brink of using nuclear warfare such as what happened during the cold war. They stopped using massive soldiers and be taken to alliance countries. The political benefit is power although they are just giving words it's already in the thin line of instigation. However, this created a negative impact on the people that anytime they are not sure if they would still live or not.
I believe answer is: Praise
Preys mean something or someone that being hunted by others, praize does not have specific meaning, while prays refers to the act of communicating with a certain type of diety.
Praise means the act of expressing admiration toward a certain things, which is the most suitable for the sentence above.