Tom Bilyeu

And that's all before you count the non-shooting wars, the trade wars, the tech wars, the capital wars that virtually every major power right now is fighting already.

Dalio's view, and I think he is right, is that these aren't separate stories.

These are one story.

This is

And what he says is, we are now in an interconnected world that has a number of shooting wars going on.

Together, these conflicts make up a very classic world war that is analogous to past world wars.

Now, that's the end of the quote.

The sides that are lining up clearly are China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

That's one side.

The U.S., Europe, Ukraine, Israel, and the GCC states, plus Japan on the other side.

You can throw in Australia on our side if you want to really be robust, but those are the rough sides.

Now, Dalio has tracked all of that through UN voting records, formal treaties, and direct actions, and he says they all point in the same direction.

And that is this world war, the remapping of all the alliances.

Dalio has mapped out, he's been doing this for a while, by the way, so none of this is new.

It's not like he's being reactionary to what's happening right now.

This is just what he's seeing looking back at the 500 years of history that we as a world always go through this 13-step sequence.

We're hitting pause for a moment, but there's plenty more ahead, so don't go anywhere.

Let's talk about gold.

Gold is the right asset these days, but most people are using it wrong.

They buy it, hold it, and then wait for the price to go up.