Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
13,319
total events across belligerents · 92 daily data points
Annotated milestones
2 of 4
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
2,485
213 Iraq · 2,272 United States
IraqUnited States
Source · casualties_daily aggregated by ISO week14 weeks
Bottom Line
We assess with low confidence that the conflict tagged as "US-Handelskrieg" (US–Iraq trade war) at escalation score 100/100 is not substantiated by the current evidence pack. The evidence overwhelmingly centers on the US–Iran military confrontation and its financial-market spillovers; no articles reference a US–Iraq trade war. The escalation score appears misattributed or reflects a data-pipeline error.
Key Developments (last 24–48 hours)
Apr 24 — US dollar
Top 10
High-severity events
Severity-ranked events touching this conflict's belligerents · last 30 days
Neodymium-Praseodymium· Halleck Creek Rare Earths ProjectUnited Statesmining—13.0%
Neodymium-Praseodymium· White Mesa MillUnited Statesmining—13.0%
Neodymium-Praseodymium· White MesaUnited Statesmining—13.0%
Top 10 shown · global share % = country’s share of worldwide production at this stageFull dataset via API · contact
No dispatches indexed for this conflict in the last 30 days.
Methodology
This brief was drafted daily by Claude Opus/Haiku under an ICD 203 analytic-tradecraft prompt: bottom line up-front, calibrated probability language (“likely,” “highly likely”), explicit confidence levels, and alternative-analysis sections. Drawn from 20 dispatches across 17 publications, stored in our ingestion pipeline across strategic_events, intelligence_events, threat_assessments, and entity_relationships.
Event volume and casualty counts key off IQ as the country anchor. Casualty figures above 100,000/day are filtered as extraction outliers pending manual review.
