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>I can't think of a single way in which the United States came out ahead in the war.

The stock market did, which is amazing if you're the top 10% of asset owners who own 50% of the country's wealth.

>except Russia by heaping sky rocketing energy costs on them

Russia doesn't benefit from this energy spike, since its biggest customers, China and India, have long term contracts that Russia can't just rip and renegotiate to charge spot prices, since they're in a pickle right now and depend on imports to keep the war going while not being able to sell to too many nations so they're stuck watching potential earnings go past them.

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> Russia doesn't benefit from this energy spike,

No? https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/11/iran-war-russia-putin-t...

  > Data suggests that Moscow has already made billions of dollars of additional 
  > revenue from oil sales because of higher crude prices, as well as the fact 
  > that the United States temporarily rescinded sanctions on Russia to rein in 
  > global costs

> > Data suggests that Moscow has already made billions of dollars of additional

What's the data and how many extra billions did the make from China and how much increase is that in %?

At this point I doubt anything could make stock market go down... It seems that there is no connection to anything but itself.

I feel the same.

Why does the market seem so disconnected from the general economy?

Did the stock market come out ahead? The Dow is about where it was when this started.

The Dow is not the stock market. Look at the total stock market (something like VTI).

That said, it seems that the stock market is doing well in spite of this war, and not because of it. Who knows how long that will last

They probably had a few stock owners in mind, which came ahead and keep coming ahead with strategically planned transactions placed right before another US major move - all by pure coincidence of course.

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