world war

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In November 2024, Koguan said he was “no longer all-in-Tesla” and began acquiring Treasury bills, citing his fear of a “1929 type stock market crash” and a potential third world war.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026

As he put it, “the war is now moving to a new stage: what we in the military call ‘positional’ warfare of static and attritional fighting, as in the first world war.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2025

One minister told me: "It's a huge moment of history – American pledging a different way of doing business to what's essentially been in place since the second world war."

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2025

Christopher Sheffield, 61, a counselor for veterans in Thomasville, Georgia, said Trump’s attitudes about race bothered him, but not as much as his concern that conflicts abroad could devolve into a world war.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024

In any case, the code breakers went home soon enough, and didn’t return till it was obvious that Hitler was about to start a world war.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin