Retail panics on geopolitical headlines. Institutions position ahead of them. The data from 20 major conflict events says the same thing every time — and right now, the signal is as clear as it gets.
Whether or not Iran's new naval missile is actually hypersonic is the wrong question. The right question is what a 90-mile sea-based SAM bubble does to the strategic calculus for US carrier operations in the Persian Gulf.
The US is executing its largest military buildup in the Gulf since 2003. Iran isn't Iraq. It isn't Afghanistan. It isn't the Houthis. And the 21% of Americans who support this war don't get to speak for the rest of us.