Saw a story today that the odds of World War 3 beginning in the next year is 50%. That's pretty high. Crazy.

https://www.livemint.com/news/world-war-...75141.html

Iran is the key in all of this. If their government gets involved and starts a war with Israel by defending Hezbollah, then this thing could explode. I don't think Russia or China will get involved in the Gaza situation, but Russia/Iran will support each other as allied, and if we send all our resources to help Israel fight off Iran, you can pretty much take it to the bank that China will see the golden opportunity to go into Taiwan, drawing us into that conflict. Next thing you know, there's three separate wars going on in different parts of the world, with our military involved in two of them. Of course, the UN/Nato prolly gets involved as well.

Hopefully it doesn't come to that, but I've heard some military analysts discuss that possibility. I have some friends and co-workers who just got deployed over to the Middle East. Hopefully this stays contained.

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