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No-Contribution1070

Iran should ask for Gold as payment lmao. That would probably start WW3.

trumpdiego

ackshully the German stock market soared into WW1

tobiasfunkgay

That can be seen as a pro rather than a con though. It's the same in general society if someone has absolutely no stake in society and nothing to lose they tend to act dangerously and erratically. If Iran are making money from the strait they're now fully invested in it's security and doing anything to compromise that would be a huge blow to them not just to other countries. It's a lesson from how Germany was treated after WW1, the massive reparations they were made to pay crippled the economy, backed them into a corner and led to the rise of the Nazis and WW2 in large part because of those issues. I don't see any world where treating Iran as a pariah and giving them no stake in the strait will ever lead to a good long term outcome. You can't possibly bully a country that massive, especially not with the modern asymmetric warfare where offensive drones are super cheap and can be launched from anywhere while defending specific locations is incredibly expensive.

pickledmagahead

Why. WW3?

annon8595

How does one prosper with most extreme WW2 level debt without the WW2 level jobs and without WW2 level population boom? Population will be falling soon btw.

Sorryasaurus

Try to think of it like this. \- Look at the stock market since WW2. \- Look at what caused the great depression, look at the stock market \- You see, if the stock market is being propped up right now \- It's very logical that it was propped up since those major events way back when \- It's never been real, the US Govt picks the floor and ceiling, and it moves up every generation

One_Health_9358

WW3 is more likely than a single arrest.

deevee12

WW3 and bears can't even get a 10% dip LMAO

calm_discussion_3500

So was I, had to find jobs during dotcom bust but bro... seriously you have to shed your enormous recency bias. It's clouding your judgement big time. This isn't 08. Genuinely valuations were super fair it wasn't a bubble. But credit markets became stupidly overleveraged and overamplified with risk due to exotic derivatives that were then poorly understood. This time everyone is hyper vigilant of the smallest risk and we are printing at the smallest hiccup to prevent a crash. We're runnning WW2 deficits in peacetime to prevent a crash. Deflation is dead. We're never having it again absent a genuine unbelievable black swan we can't even fathom.

spudbro00

So apparently WW3 was just the market against bears and not in the middle east

dbd209

America could start WW3 tomorrow, and the market would front run the ending of the war and for whatever reason limit up. The stock market will never again have a sustained dip ever again, and nobody can convince me otherwise. Up only.

dbd209

Everything is bullish I guess. Oil goes to 150 a barrel? Bullish. China invades Taiwan? Bullish. WW3 begins? Bullish.

pajamageorge

WW3 is coming...but most of us will be watching it from the sidelines for the years to come. I feel horrible for those who will get pulled into the fighting.

climate-tenerife

In my admitedly rather uneducated view, i only see three courses of action: 1) boots on ground (unlikely, but i wont put anything past trump's need to save face) 2) retreat, claim victory, lose all support from US allies and crash the US economy into the ground 3) win by any means (nuke them once and threaten more unless they open hormuz and accept defeat) Or a 4th option: simply keep on throwing bombs like they currently are, and reassess next week. Does anyone else have any other ideas? To anyone who says "they won't use nukes", I do not personally put anything past trump. Trump will think that nukes ended the japanese threat in WW2; this would be just like that.

spudbro00

if there is a WW3 you would want to lower those price targets by at least another 30%

Raise_A_Thoth

Perhaps. We're in a period of violence, changing geopolitical dynamics, and escalation that, if this *did* escalate to a legitimately global all-out war, then yes, history would definitely look at March 2026 and say they had already begun WW3. But we haven't reached a point where it would qualify as WW3 yet, thankfully. Still can get horrifically nasty before a WW level event. Remember Korea and Vietnam were not WW3.

Secret_Block_8755

I fear that only makes the problem worse. Think post WW1 Germany.

Secret_Block_8755

I fear that only makes the problem worse. Think post WW1 Germany.

icearus

Were there "good guys" in WW2?

ThreeTonChonker

1. Lots of people came to the realization that gold and silver are outdated assets. People in the past month who tried to sell their physical gold and silver realized that only an exchange or pawn shop would buy it, but never for current value. Not to mention the fees that get stacked onto these transactions. Gold and silver as a stock or index fund is all vibes and paper. The exchange isn’t required to hold physical gold or silver so the entire market is fraudulent. Finally - the charts don’t lie, the outlook for gold doesn’t look good if you look at a 10Y chart and imagine the price reverting back to the mean. 2. AI stocks - I think this sector is in the same flux that the browser wars were experiencing during the 2000s. If you could go back in time and invest in Google, of course you would. But hindsight is 20/20, would you have avoided AskJeeves, Yahoo, AltaVista, etc? 3. BTC is the future. All of the problems of gold and silver are defeated. Crypto in general I don’t have much faith in, but Bitcoin is different, it’s unfortunate that Bitcoin is surrounded by the clown show of crypto. Closest comparison is the internet. Old people back then hated the internet and talked nonstop about how pen and paper will never be replaced. Some people would become truly upset if you forced email and websites onto them. The greatest generation (WW2 era adults) never adapted. Same thing with BTC. It’s clear boo mers are really struggling with wrapping their heads around it and become very upset at any mention of it. But that will change within 10-20 years when the boo mers are gone. I think BTC will go down as the greatest investment in history due to its utility as a store of value. It is still very early and yet the entire world is already starting to see the purpose of BTC. When shit hits the fan, people say they want gold, but never ask themselves how they would sell it. You can sell BTC to someone halfway across the world for current market value and get the money transferred into your account within 1-2 days. The utility is unbeatable and the trust is there since it cannot be hacked and there’s no CEO of Bitcoin, it is a machine that runs itself with no egomaniac to screw it up.

Maximum-Cash7103

Yeah as if the impending WW3 wasn’t bad enough.

Jaded-Influence6184

There have been war crimes in the 21rst century. But there have been no genocides. If you can point at a country or region and show virtually all members of an identifiable group have been killed off, then I'll take it back. Like 90%. For instance, in WW2 there were virtually no Jews, or Jehovah's Witnesses, and others left in Poland by the end of WW2. For example, at the start of WW2, 3.3 million Jews lived in Poland, by end of the war 380K; the difference went into the ovens or body pits. THAT's a genocide. The meaning of 'genocide' has been co-opted by left wing groups using the term to prop up their own arguments. It doesn't work. It's akin to using a word to define itself. I'm not saying in places recently that what amounts to war crimes have happened, but no to the level of genocide. You are minimizing what happened in real genocides by doing what you are doing.

softboiledjadepotato

After educating us on the timelines of WW1 and WW2.. must have taken the full strength of his remaining 9 brain cells not to say our WW3 will be swifter

I_am_Nerman

You wouldn't have survived WW2

OwnDoughnut2689

While not formally declaring war, congress has voted on resolutions for nearly every war after WW2, with some exception for Korea.

thenuttyhazlenut

I think Israel sees trump's presidency as an opportune moment to wage war on their enemies and have the US back them. They feel as if it's their time. The same way the Germans released their pent up resentment for Europe in WW2.

QuantrixQuintrix

He legit brought up WWI, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan as justifying the length SO FAR of this “excursion”.

poorat8686

Just going to say that the conspiritards were all fucking right all this time and you fucks called us crazy but it was all real you’d better start betting on conspiracies and dried beans boys this is a prelude to WW3

Difficult_Youth_8367

I know, I’m like bro keep the WW3 chat lowkey.

Several_Vanilla8916

“Compared to WW2 this really isn’t so bad. You know. For me.”

JeronimoPearson

He basically called this WW III. Spy back to 632 tomorrow

netflix-ceo

And this is happening while FIFA peace prize holder is running the show. Imagine if it was someone else lol, we would have wrapper up WW6 already

netflix-ceo

And this is happening while FIFA peace prize holder is running the show. Imagine if it was someone else lol, we would have wrapper up WW6 already

Aware-Teacher5389

I never thought in my lifetime I’d experience WW3 and a pandemic. Shit is crazy

IDUnavailable

* We've decimated them and done all the hard work * Everyone else should just go and take the strait/oil or buy it from us * We could have hit their oil but we haven't * Regime change wasn't our goal but everyone's dead * If he didn't undo Obama's deal with Iran (where he took a bunch of our green, green cash and gave it to them) then Israel wouldn't exist right now * We don't need to be there but we're there anyway because we're such good guys doing everyone a favor * Iran killed 6 million protesters * The strait will just open on its own naturally * Our country was dead and crippled after the last administration but now it's the hottest country in the world with zero inflation * If they don't capitulate then we're gonna bomb em back to "the stone ages" * Anyway we're going to be hitting them very hard over the next 2-3 weeks Also at one point he listed off how long the US was involved in WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Korea and Iraq to basically go "hey we've been there 30 days stop crying".

NeedToMakeMoneyz

Yeah let’s reference WW 1 and 2 great idea.

shindiggaa

WW1 only lasted 1 year???

Beneficial-Sign-569

mfker WW3 we fkd bols

fan_of_hakiksexydays

Why is he talking about WW1, WW2, Vietnam, etc... that's not helping here

vigocarpath

Israel has been calling the shots since the end of WW2

jsie-iaiqhsi816278

bears forgot WW2 pulled out the usa from the great depression. SPY 1000 EOY

bigluvin69

“Guys I just need WW3 so that I can make a couple grand”

cookingboy

And throughout everything you mentioned the U.S’s standing of a superpower grew, along with the strength of the petro-dollar. For the first time since the Civil War, the U.S’s strength is now waning and for the first time since WW2, the strength of the petro-dollar is now in question.

AI-Slop-Bot

Of course there is as they’re dealing with treacherous cowards who will attack them again in a few months time. They want real security guarantees and reparations backed by other strong nations to ensure it’s enforceable. Other strong nations won’t want to act as guarantors as Israel is a warmonger and will kick off WW3. It’s a complete impasse. US needs to finish the job or it will continue despite them chickening out. Trump is a moron.

Fast-Steak-7730

BREAKING: New COVID-19 variant nicknamed “Cicada” has been detected in multiple U.S. states and countries and is being monitored by health officials. WW3, new COVID, more tariffs(?) oh baby we going to see 500 again

Rosebunse

I hate it because I have had issues with Israel for years and now it's fashionable, but I still get weird comments from actual antisemitic people. I don't hate all Jews! Stop sending me your weird WW2 fanfiction!

Joint-Tester

Get off the sinking ship dude. What in the fuck are you waiting for? Literal WW3?

No-Relationship8261

4. Dems are gay. 5. WW3 but Libs still got owned.

saccotac

Surprise MF! WW3 starts this weekend and you are long as fuck

CarRamRob

I think you are downplaying how much more serious event this is than past dips and drops. The amount of oil offline is around 12 mmbbl/d. The world has never experienced that much offline as a percentage of use since WW2. Meanwhile, you are relaxing because Trump is retreating and things will return to normal…but it’s not Trumps call. It’s Iran’s. Why would the new leader who had his parents, wife and son killed in an assassination to start this war just wash their hands and reopen the strait? If Trump sends the Aircraft carriers home, now Iran can punish its enemies in the GCC even more, and control their production wholly. If Trump leaves, it means OPEC control means nothing anymore, and Iran, and Iran alone controls the price of oil across the whole world. If that scenario makes you want to invest at 4% off all time highs, feel free. But it’s a major departure to a system that has kept the price of oil and its supply controlled for the last 80 years. If you think this is like a Government lockdown, or tariff announcement etc, you are the one who has no convincing.

Twelvesthegreat

https://x.com/WW3_Monitor/status/2039384239645360375 Is that bullish?

Subject-Chest-8343

Weren't the french saying this about WW1 ?

Sturmghiest

You clearly don't know what led up to the Gulf War do you? Would be like saying the UK started WW2

bejammin075

Have you ever heard of Iraq or Viet Nam? We had over 500,000 troops on the ground in Viet Nam, and they didn't surrender. Did you know that we also bombed Viet Nam with more than what fell on Europe and Asia during WW2? You don't seem to get how it works when we fight halfway around the world for a war that is optional for us, but a matter of survival for the opponent.

DISAPPOINTING_FAIRY

The consequence will be, and already has been, the world. Men like these will destroy it in pursuit of their godlike delusions, and the money machine gives them their power. It gives them the capital they need to operate as individuals, and it also works as a sort of proxy approval rating. 🥭 has been told the stove is on over and over. He continues to touch it. He continues to not get burned. Why is that? Is he wearing some type of glove and just isn't aware of it? Is the stove not actually on? Who knows? But he's certainly not learning to associate the act of touching the stove with the sensation of getting burned. WW2 ended over 80 years ago now. Just about the length of a human lifespan. Meaning that event is all but gone from living human memory. We've heard the stories, we were warned, but we weren't *there*, and so we don't *really* know. The Great Depression was even further back. This is how history repeats itself. Eventually, the burner will actually be hot.

bejammin075

Any troops we put there would be slaughtered. You sound like Dick Cheney saying we'll be greeted as liberators. After we just struck 10,000 targets, many of which have killed civilians. We've strengthened the Iranian regime, that's what typically happens when we attack a country, the rally-around-the-leader effect. Any troops that land need bases to operate out of, and they need logistical support. Iran has destroyed most of the opposing radar in the region, we are blind to their drone attacks. They would pound any US positions with drones, all the while we'd have to rely on air power alone for logistical support: weapons, food, water, medical evacuation. If we invade by ground it would be worse than Gallipoli WW1.

zuziannka

WW3 will be bullish or bearish?

CarRamRob

See this isn’t thinking too much about trading on trends and expectations. People are forgetting we have currently the largest oil outage by % that the world has ever experienced since WW2 and are treating it as a “buy the dip” moment. This isn’t a financial problem, it’s a physical one that is about to halt factories, movement of goods, etc.

RareGuarantee3532

Actually western peace was mostly due to fear of communism until 90s then aging population. No country with a 40+ average age never started a war on its territory. Neighboring wars are always between a rising power and a falling one, every EU country was destroyed after WW2. Now we are going down, so we are attacking countries going up (hello russia, hello middle east, hello south america,...)

CATLLM

Every country having announcements today means WW3

CATLLM

WW3

TailRudder

They are hoarding oil for WW3

Top-Meaning2626

[WW?](https://x.com/i/status/2039175532512698680)

TernTheNumbers

https://xcancel.com/WW3_Monitor/status/2039170090348732689#m

Moist-Ninja-6338

Would you have believed the Germans in WW2?

ozz3121

Trump's announcement tomorrow will be the announcement of the first usage of nukes on another nation since WW2. We will be launching a nuke every time he says "nuke".

Amazing_Plankton744

Starting WW3 on Easter does fit these peeps' motives. By peeps I mean the pastel decimators of teef.

cheerfulwish

People are clueless. If the US were to the modern version of what bombing looked like in WW2, they would give a 1 week warning for people to evacuate a city before flying 50 b52s over head and carpet bombing an area, completely leveling everything. I’m happy wars are no longer fought like that (sucks they are fought at all) but people thinking there is no escalation possible are as clueless as those who listen to Trump.

No_Mercy_4_Potatoes

Cause the US wasn't really impacted during WW2. American manufacturing massively benefitted in fact.

WordsHappenedHere

Fun fact. The stock market doubled during WW2. This ain’t even close to WW3 bro. So maybe we wont quite double then?

WordsHappenedHere

Stock market doubled during WW2.

Puzzleheaded-Mix6359

Both countries are ruining there own economies with this war. No one wants to side with America, which is the number 1 thing they had going for them as a country since WW2, and oil from Iran will become too expensive which will in turn force countries to become for self reliant outside of Iran. I know here in Australia we are already looking at sourcing our own oil from Queensland and South Australia

Icy-Sheepherder-7595

When the words involve the potential for WW3 yea that sort of thing is what makes and breaks the stock market. Idk what the point of your comment is.

DesticularDorsion

Where are they going to stage? Kuwait? UAE? You don't understand the logistical impossibility of this. Form of power to what? Not be able to medivac or resupply? The country is 3x Iraq and almost entirely mountains. We can't get boats in, and there is 24/7 ISR. I'm sure the IRGC is shaking in their boots at the idea of a bunch of stranded Americans. This isn't WW2. 

Budget-Ocelots

Nothing. The pandora box is already opened after WW2.

Beginning-Town-4979

I'm just making a joke about the military claiming to be on Holiday. Also, try not assuming that everyone who makes jokes about your France's performance in WW2 is pro-War or uneducated. This is social media, not a discussion at the College of War.

CoC_Axis_of_Evil

Aren't we already past the point of no return with the Petro dollar? Unless they take the oil physically, there is no leverage over other countries to use the dollar. Also, those countries can eventually pull the WW2 Russia strategy of scorched earth.

Gom_KBull

1000 white women from the US? Do you WANT A WW3?!

Regular_Hawk8513

Smells like WW3

Hellhooker

the jokes mostly comes from the Iraq war, not really WW2. Nobody who actually fought in WW2 think it was funny. Also nobody who understands WW2 would joke about how the countries involved in WW1 had it. Having the guts to joke on surrending a nation who fought the WW1 trenches conflicts is so out of touch...

Hellhooker

It's about the Iraq war when France called Bush on his bullshit. the WW2 argument is laughable, especially when it comes from americans who only decided to engage in the war to counter the russians and did it 3 years after everyone fought I leaved a bad taste in the mouth considering the USA and France are the oldest allies and the USA are a country thanks to France help against the UK. It's a bit funny though to get hated on something we were 100% right

Mist_Rising

>Nobody wanted to "sign-up" to fight nazis, Your overrevising history to correct revision. Plenty of people signed up willingly to fight, they always have and always will. The Marine Corp has never drafted anyone, and neither has the 82nd or 101st had draftees. Furthermore this is common across nations, because the early war is also romanticized out and signing up needs to happen fast or you'll miss out! [Here are folks lined up to sign up](https://49fe30bb3aa7406c16dc-5c968119d095dc32d807923c59347cc2.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/2012.019.338_1.jpg) And to prove it's not just one nation [this is Munich in WW1 celebrating the start of the war](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-the-outbreak-of-war-in-munich-1914-122455054.html) and at least one of these Germans would sign up willingly. Alas that he did not die in the fields of Flanders. If you know, you know. What does happen is that the war proves fatal to life, the glamour of the war wears off and the war still goes on. That's when the draft kicks in. >Nobody wanted to fight the Gulf War. All three Gulf wars as well as Afghanistan were fought entirely by volunteers. The US doesn't have the draft by that point. Furthermore, the massive increase the US military saw in sign ups for Afghanistan was huge. 9/11 shocked the nation and the citizens wanted to strike back, even joining to be part of the hammer that would strike. While the sign ups receded over the years, the military was still and is still, volunteer only in the US. >Nobody wanted to fight in Ukraine. The number of people who went to Ukraine to fight would heavily suggest otherwise. I don't have much love for JD Vance's brother's politics, but the man willingly went to Ukraine to fight. No question there.

raiodocachopo

That's WW3. The oil shall never be priced in Yuan, that's the ultimate rule for America.

Mist_Rising

>Nobody wanted to "sign-up" to fight nazis, Your overrevising history to correct revision. Plenty of people signed up willingly to fight, they always have and always will. The Marine Corp has never drafted anyone, and neither has the 82nd or 101st had draftees. Furthermore this is common across nations, because the early war is also romanticized out and signing up needs to happen fast or you'll miss out! [Here are folks lined up to sign up](https://49fe30bb3aa7406c16dc-5c968119d095dc32d807923c59347cc2.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/2012.019.338_1.jpg) And to prove it's not just one nation [this is Munich in WW1 celebrating the start of the war](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-the-outbreak-of-war-in-munich-1914-122455054.html) and at least one of these Germans would sign up willingly. Alas that he did not die in the fields of Flanders. If you know, you know. What does happen is that the war proves fatal to life, the glamour of the war wears off and the war still goes on. That's when the draft kicks in.

The_BakedCrusader

How did American lives fight for Italian peoples freedom during WW2? Italy fought with the Germans.

Successful-Bobcat701

Germany did far worse in WW2, but I've forgiven them.

ChronicBuzz187

>Now we can talk about epstein ? How about another regime change instead? Or maybe even two... or WW3? At this pace, he's gonna run out of diversions until 2028, isn't he?

Own-Emphasis5589

Understand history. If it weren't for Europe, France in particular, the U.S. would be singing "God Save the King" before soccer and cricket matches. The French not only supplied military expertise and weaponry during the American Revolution, the French navy interrupted and disrupted British ships in the eastern Atlantic, impeding the Brits from re-supplying its troops in America. The European countries of France, Spain, Netherlands, and Sweden all recognizing American independence put pressure on Britain to end the war and sign the Treaty of Paris. So the United States owes much of its own existence to Western Europe. During WW2, the tide had already turned and the Germans were beginning to lose the war before the United States entered. Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941, and by the fall of 1941, the Germans had begun sustaining heavy and unsustainable losses. By the time the U.S. entered in December 1941, Germany was already losing. The entry of the U.S. sped up the end of the war, but Germany was already on its way to a loss by the time the U.S. entered. Regarding the last 80 years, remember that the NATO countries did not start reducing their militaries until the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. For most of the Cold War, the European powers were fully invested in their defense. On top of that, having a stable and secure Europe gave the United States tremendous economic advantages by having reliable and secure trading partners with strong economies in their own right. So it was very much in the interest of the United States to be aligned with western Europe. Even with the European NATO countries reducing their budgets over the past 30 years, the combined European NATO budgets are still more than three times the size of the Russian military budget. Additionally Western European NATO independently posses its own nuclear arsenals as a deterrent against Russian aggression. Western Europe is not dependent on the United States for its defense. It helps, no doubt, but Wester Europe is not exactly a sitting duck without the United States.

BagRight1007

Yes, I guess US has protected Germany from... Germany Or France felt so protected they had to leave NATO NATO was a tool created by the US exactly so Europe won't arm again after WW2. It WAS the sensible choice and a good thing, don't get me wrong. But Europe has the shitty army it has today exactly because US wanted them to. All it took to undo 80 or so years of this was an orange pdf. Good job America Re-using this comment as it's still relevant. The baltic states would probably remain independent... just like Greenland would, right? :p Not too long, I guess. Probably a lot faster than it would take for Europe and China and Russia to get in bed, then US has another set of problems.

BagRight1007

Yes, I guess US has protected Germany from... Germany Or France felt so protected they had to leave NATO NATO was a tool created by the US exactly so Europe won't arm again after WW2. It WAS the sensible choice and a good thing, don't get me wrong. But Europe has the shitty army it has today exactly because US wanted them to. All it took to undo 80 or so years of this was an orange pdf

Redguru00

>The US never left the Cold War era. True. >It's just that Americans were under enough propaganda to believe they were always the good guys, and no counter-information to know the truth. This has honestly never been the case. The gov has implemented major historical revisionism and propaganda about WW2 which the "progressive" left has been regurgitating to younger generations for the past 10-15 years. Nobody wanted to "sign-up" to fight nazis, WW2 was the largest draft in US history. Nobody wanted to fight in Korea. Nobody wanted to fight in Vietnam. Nobody wanted to fight the Soviets and Afghanis. Nobody wanted to fight Iran and Iraq. Nobody wanted to fight the Gulf War. Nobody wanted to fight the "war on terror". Nobody wanted to fight in Ukraine. Nobody wants to fight Iran... Americans know exactly how evil this country's government and military is. Americans simply Do. Not. Care. as long as it doesn't inconvenience their personal lives. That's why the gov got rid of the draft after Vietnam. If the current president is dumb enough to reinstute conscription there will genuinely be a revolt within 15 years. Just in line with economic predictions for when the petro dollar collapses.

scipio0421

You deserve to make those jokes about you. We made them for decades on baseless "facts" that ignored the Free French state in WW2 and all the positive effects the French Resistance had on the outcome of the war in Europe.

marion85

Political status on the international stage has very little to do with morals or ethics. Its about political reliability. Miltary and economic power, and alliances, and that last bit is where the last tattered shreds of the US's status are still hanging from. The US has shown itself to be too unreliable for any of the pillars of its status with its allies to stand anymore, but the problem for them is how INTERMESHED the US is with their their economies and military defensive strategies. The has, since the end of WW2, been making itself the indispensable country so to speak with the rest of the western world by design to secure itself as a the dominant world power, which it has and all our allies would have to disentagle themsleves from us first in order to even start openly defying and denouncing us, and that takes YEARS... normally. But we've been speedrunning the death of the American empire so fast that soon they may have no choice but to cut us like a diseased limb and suffer massive political and economic damage, rather than going down the grave of empires with us.

DesticularDorsion

It is indeed WW3. War doesn't look like it did back then. There won't be million man occupations or formal declarations from legislators.

RareGuarantee3532

earning are pasts, used to expect forseable future, no one invest for the past. Currently, past earnings have less influence on forseable future than WW3 or Oil price, or shortage on commodities or the end of PaxAmericana and the return of piracy in International waters, or Taiwan falling under CCP's control, etc. So yeap, geopolitics rules global economy more than the peacetime results of tech companies

BigBoyYuyuh

Remember when countries made Germany pay for WW I? How’d that work out?

lookawayyouarefilthy

Israel’s strategy here is clear: they want to demonstrate that the U.S. is no longer an effective power player in the Middle East. Their ultimate goal is to sideline American influence and establish themselves as the primary regional hegemon. In fact, I’m 50% certain they are actively gaslighting the administration making Trump believe he’s negotiating with Iran when he’s actually being led in circles. They want the USA to fail publicly, right in front of all of us. The state of the world right now is exhausting, and frankly, all I want is to live in peace without the constant shadow of another WW.

swingworkstheoracle

WW3 would be

Working_Monitor_2076

I hope nobody is stupid enough to get involved. Otherwise we have WW3

myrdinwylt

The thing about nukes is that they're mostly used as a form of insurance. If you decide to actually use them, you've just increased the chance of getting destroyed yourself from a possibility to a near certainty. There was a perfectly fine nuclear accord which the US withdrew from in 2018 for no apparent reason. Besides, the notion that the US should get to decide who does and doesn't get to have nukes is laughable. There is indeed an argument to be made that the world would be a better place with a democratic regime change in Iran. But given the strategy the Trump regime is currently following, it's hard to believe that this is truly their intention. The track record of the US in almost every foreign war/intervention aimed at regime change since WW2 also shows they're not very likely to succeed. Think of what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ill-advised hubris by the orange clown is what I'm thinking.