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Most historians agree that the world came closest to a nuclear war with the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, when President John Kennedy discovered that the Soviet Union had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba and warned Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to remove them—or else. For two weeks messages flashed back and forth between Moscow and Washington. As tension mounted and U.S. forces, including nuclear-loaded B-52s, were placed on high alert, the Soviets blinked, agreeing to dismantle th...

NEW YORK  —  Financial markets do not seem to be pricing in the full risks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The absence of any meaningful negative response in equity, corporate debt and sovereign debt markets in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan would barely make sense even if there was no chance of the situation escalating into an open conflict between NATO and

NEW YORK  —  Financial markets do not seem to be pricing in the full risks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The absence of any meaningful negative response in equity, corporate debt and sovereign debt markets in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan would barely make sense even if there was no chance of the situation escalating into an open conflict between NATO and

“History,” Barbara Tuchman concluded, “is the unfolding of miscalculation.”

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a nuclear conflict between global powers seems more likely now than it has in decades. The financial world seems to barely notice, though, with a lack of any meaningful negative response in asset markets.

“History,” Barbara Tuchman concluded, “is the unfolding of miscalculation.”

Just another example of Joe Biden showing he cares more about Vladimir Putin's feelings than he does about our national security

Fatmouthing warmongers like Rep. Adam Kinzinger are pushing us closer to nuclear war with Russia

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: As a schoolboy in the 1980s, I vividly remember the paranoia of the decades that followed. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, I assumed those days were over.