When I work with people struggling with writing a premise, most often what they're trying to use their premise to tell their story, i.e., the characters went here and did this, this is the plot, etc. Again, that leads the writer down the road of mistaking character goals and desires for what's at stake in their story itself . Frugality leads to waste. This premise is too general. It is not specific about what kind of events in history, how these events act on some group of people in a way that a story would offer some resolution.
War leads to senseless destruction.
What's at stake in this story is whether the destruction of war can be avoided. The fulfillment of this premise would be, perhaps, that a character who initiated events that led to a war believed they could protect themselves from the ruin of war, but they could not. The destruction of war leads to rebirth . While this story would have the same background as the premise above, it moves toward an entirely different fulfillment. The fulfillment of this story might be that out of the aftermath of war and its destruction, life would begin anew.