SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)

[imiloa]

2H2, i haven't drunk any kool-aid.
usa has been nearly constantly at war
somewhere around the world since the 1950s.
in no small part recently, due to oil titans demanding
usa military intervention to secure oil in foreign lands,
including vp, cheney, in the 00s,
and throughout the decades,
the steady flow of bribes from usa weapons manufacturers
to keep their revenues consistent.

that said, all the wars we've seen before
don't quality for ww3 in my book.
one key is in the literal moniker, "world."

ukraine has become a proxy war
with the west supplying ukraine,
and iran supplying russia,
but thus far, china, india, etc... have not been involved,
and only have political stakes in promoting stability of geoeconomics.

imo, actual ww3 will be a very different beast,
bringing usa back to the pre-1989 era
when we woke up each day
to the daily possibility of nuclear war.

time will tell how it plays out.

in the meantime, this is a SPY forum.
imo, the potential for ww3 is only relevant here
in context of the potential for markets to crash
if iran and usa start shooting at each other directly.
(vs iran shooting at usa via houthi rebels currently)