"Aggressive action that is somewhat preemptive in nature always bears the immediate short-term risk of retaliation, but non-action bears the risk of a completely reshaped world map."
"Aggressive action that establishes deterrence always bears the immediate short-term risk of retaliation, but non-action bears the risk of a completely reshaped world map."
"Under no circumstance can there be an Israeli invasion into Gaza. It's going to be a bloodbath."
"Putin's really dangerous... miscalculations become potentially catastrophic."
"He is absolutely taking more risks at that time intervening in the war in Syria... even risking direct confrontation with American military forces."
"If Ukraine collapses this year, we will have forces in Poland and we will be at a very high risk of a nuclear exchange with the Russians."
"I believe the Iranian regime, if they had a nuclear weapon, would use it... it's been the cancer of the Mideast."
"The Baltic states could be vulnerable to Russian aggression."
"China’s increasing nuclear stockpile could reduce those defenses to rubble should Beijing choose the nuclear option."
"Bitcoin makes a lot of sense when there's geopolitical risk out there."
"China's stranglehold on the global supply of essential medicines is a security risk." - Sam Armstrong, foreign policy expert
"Europe's green delusion resulted in near complete dependence on Russia for energy."
"If they weaponized one River, they will do it again."
"Nuclear war is quickly becoming one of those serious possibilities again."
"If they do put nuclear weapons in Finland, that means Saint Petersburg gone in a few seconds."
"The president expressed concern the comments might increase the risk of the U.S. getting into a direct conflict with Russia."
"It's obviously very perilous to be a country in an existentially vulnerable situation at a time when norms and practices are in Decline and disarray."
"If there's any guy who would risk nuclear warfare to achieve some flash of nationalistic glory it would be Putin."
"There's a risk attached to Russia not quite having a monopoly over that supply but having influence in it."
"It was an incredibly brave move that risked taking England to war with its Roman Catholic neighbors in Europe."
"We are definitely at a higher risk of nuclear war than we were yesterday."
"This is a witch's brew that could see the American Empire collapse almost overnight."
"This new restriction poses a new danger as advanced U.S weapons are almost entirely reliant on rare earth materials."
"One wrong move by either side, and the world would be bathed in nuclear hellfire."
"What happens in Ukraine today can happen in Taiwan tomorrow."
"There's no positive scenario where nuclear powers start gobbling up their smaller neighbors."
"Do you think Russia will ever actually use nuclear weapons?"
"I would suspect that it's the most dangerous moment geopolitically in my lifetime let alone yours."
"This is a very dangerous moment in our history and I would suspect that it's the most dangerous moment geopolitically in my lifetime let alone yours."
"This suspension means there is no negotiation for a new treaty. This suspension means that in 2026 when this treaty expires, we will have an arms race. One mistake, we all die."
"A country with hundreds of millions of angry citizens is highly unstable, posing the biggest geopolitical risk in the world."
"We could create a slippery slope into World War three with this thing."
"Providing F-16s to Ukraine, given what Joe Biden said a year ago, is a very, very dangerous escalation."
"The danger of nuclear Armageddon is the highest since the Cuban Missile Crisis."
"We're at the highest risk of nuclear war ever."
"A no-fly zone is escalatory and could prompt a war with Russia, a major nuclear power."
"War between the United States and China is not just possible, it's more likely than most people are prepared to estimate."
"A large portion of our area of interest falls in and around an active war zone."
"Congratulations, Philippines, you've just made yourself a nuclear Target."
"We have to avoid pushing a nuclear-powered state into a choice between humiliating retreat and using nuclear weapons for nuclear war."
"North Korea with nukes is incredibly dangerous."
"The danger with the ayatollah... is that he's a theocratic zealot."
"It's the very survival of Ukraine as a state which is now at issue."
"Attempts to punish a nuclear power such as Russia for their invasion of Ukraine endangers the whole of humanity."
"We've got the players that on the day can turn up and just absolutely destroy a team."
"The risk of nuclear war is the price you have to pay to fight Russia Putin's aggression."
"Iran: Do not travel to Iran due to the high risk of kidnapping and arbitrary arrests and detention of US citizens."
"Cornered like a rat, Vladimir Putin is more dangerous now than ever."
"We're very close, dangerously close to a Cuban Missile Crisis moment except of course that there is no JFK in the White House."
"This conflict isn't going anywhere. These opportunities for escalation, for this war to move into nuclear territory, continually present themselves and become more dangerous every single time."
"Like Russia, China risks losing it all if they pick the wrong side."
"The biggest threat to U.S hegemony is a potential Russian German Alliance."
"To continue to provide Ukraine with heavy weaponry... would trigger a broader conflagration."
"Experts are interpreting the accumulation of troops around Donbass in April as a risk of a new dangerous escalation."
"Once it starts collapsing in Ukraine it's very very likely that we're going to end up in a much more violent and of course nuclear violent world."
"If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, he believes it would use it."
"China is in fact a threat. China's a threat and pretending that China's not a threat is a mistake."
"It's more dangerous than anything we've seen since the Cuban missile crisis."
"If you go to war with North Korea, you are going to lose 30 million."
"Donald J. Trump: 'Demand the immediate negotiation of a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine or we will end up in World War III.'"
"Huawei really is the digital portion of China's belt and Road initiative... potentially we can see that on the digital side but the repossession is going to be your country's data and that is very very dangerous."
"Own gold in inflationary periods, own gold in deflationary periods, own gold when geopolitical strife is happening around the world."
"It's now or never; if Ukraine loses this war, Europe is next."
"If the Strait of Malacca were to somehow become obstructed or blocked for a significant amount of time, China's entire economy and society would essentially collapse."
"The key risk beyond the potential secondary sanctions... is the primary risk our mind material moving through Russia to the port of St Petersburg."
"The stakes involved in the Middle East... had the potential for one of the most dangerous confrontations since the 1962 Missile Crisis."
"The crisis has also reopened geopolitical risks that could derail the return to growth."