Billionaire Ray Dalio now is making book handicapping the chance for World War escalating up now at 50%.  Considering we've now got two healthy locations disposing of millions of rounds of ammo and tons of C-4 weekly in Gaza and Ukraine, you could make the case this is already World War, given one of the hotspots is in Europe and the other the Middle East.

How does it line up if it continues to escalate?  One would expect the Ruskies to line up with the Muslims despite not liking each other much on the principle of the enemy of my enemy is my friend.  The Anglo-American led NATO alliance includes the Western European countries, and South America is mostly controlled by right wing goobermints controlled by the CIA.  When it inevitably spreads to Asia, you would expect reversal of WWII, with the Nips aligned with the FSoA and Chinese  now in the opposite camp with the Ruskies.

No obvious hotspot on the scale of Gaza or Ukraine has yet flared up in Asia, but Taiwan seems like a good possibility.  The Chinese have some serious economic woes and a whole lot of unemployed useless eaters of their own to keep busy with a war against the capitalist pigs instead of civil war and overthrow of the corrupt CCP, so they definitely have an itchy trigger finger.

Meanwhile, on the economic front,  Treasury auctions continue to go poorly and the vast majority of Amerikans are in a stupor wondering why the shelves at Walmart are so empty while Jeff Bezos launches his newest Yacht, twice the size of the TiTanic and powered by clean Nuclear reactors that can remain out at sea for the next 50 years fishing the pristine waters of the Antarctic hitherto untapped by the coomercial fishing industry that has fished out the entire Northern Hemisphere.

Relax and enjoy the show.

https://fortune.com/2023/10/13/ray-dalio-says-world-war-50-50-israel-palestine-gaza-hamas-russia-ukraine/

Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio just put the odds of a 'hot world war' at 50%—thanks to 2 'brutal' ground wars in Ukraine and Gaza

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