I am fairly certain, based upon these comments out of Russia that they do not intend to invade crazily like we feared a short while ago.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: "A request for US and UK disinformation outlets Bloomberg, NYT, The Sun etc: please publish the timetable of our 'invasions' for the coming year. I'd like to plan my holidays."
— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) February 16, 2022
If they did, it would suggest a scorched earth stratagem of total war against the west and I doubt they’d want that.
And then there’s this.
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN SAYS UNITED STATES IS TRYING TO GRAB EUROPEAN GAS MARKET SHARE FROM RUSSIA – TASS
Since the conflagration with Russia, US shipment of LNG to Europe have soared.
The US supplied 24% (4.2 Bcm) of the EU’s overall LNG imports (17 Bcm in Q1 2021); Russia placed second at 21% (3.7 Bcm); and Qatar was third at 18% (3.1 Bcm)
US LNG SHIPMENTS TO EUROPE
It appears the US, for the first time in 60 years, is the largest exporter of natural gas to Europe and Russia isn’t too happy about this, since this is their bread and butter. The main play for LNG is LNG, but there are many others.
Here’s my LNG watchlist inside Stocklabs.
Bottom line: The economy is the main hangover for stocks now, probably not World War 3. We have bad inflation, a hawkish Fed, and the 30 year mortgage rates above 4% while prices are at record highs. The tightrope we are attempting tp navigate is treacherous and will likely lead to a housing collapse, at some point in the future.
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Nice job Biden! Glad we finally have a POTUS with a backbone.
Are you being facetious or do you mean what you write?
for trading purposes, I would add $BOIL and $KOLD to your list.