About Should I Be Worried?

Why This Exists

Most coverage of global conflicts is written for a specific audience: policy professionals, financial analysts, security researchers. It is dense, jargon-heavy, and structured around questions that professionals care about. It is not written for the person trying to figure out whether their flight to Istanbul is still safe, whether their investment portfolio is exposed to the Ukraine war, or whether rising tariffs are going to cost their small business real money.

That gap is what Should I Be Worried? is designed to close. We take active conflicts, ongoing trade disputes, and geopolitical crises, and we translate their consequences into plain English — organized around the situations that real people actually face. You tell us whether you are an investor, a traveler, a business owner, or just someone trying to make sense of what you are reading in the news. We give you a breakdown that speaks to your specific situation.

What We Cover

We currently track 10 active global conflicts and geopolitical situations, spanning Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, South Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Each conflict is assessed across four dimensions: personal finances and investments, travel and movement, business and supply chains, and what to watch in the coming months.

Our conflict list includes:

• 🇺🇦Russia–Ukraine War— Eastern Europe
• 🇮🇱Israel–Iran Tensions— Middle East
• 🇹🇼Taiwan Strait Crisis— East Asia
• 🚢Red Sea Shipping Attacks— Middle East / Horn of Africa
• 🌐US–China Trade War— Global
• 🇸🇩Sudan Civil War— Africa
• 🇰🇵North Korea Nuclear Program— East Asia
• 🇮🇳India–Pakistan Border— South Asia
• 🇮🇷Iran Nuclear Deal Collapse— Middle East
• 🇻🇪Venezuela–Guyana Dispute— South America

We update conflict information weekly and add new situations as they become globally significant.

How the Tool Works

When you use the analysis tool, you select a conflict and describe your situation. The tool generates a tailored breakdown using Claude, Anthropic's AI system, guided by a structured prompt that emphasises plain language, specific numbers, and practical implications — not vague geopolitical commentary.

Every analysis is generated fresh for your specific combination of conflict, situation type, and any personal context you provide. Analyses are not stored after you close your session.

Our static conflict pages — the detailed breakdowns for each tracked conflict — are generated and reviewed weekly, with content that includes financial, travel, and business impact sections plus a frequently asked questions section targeted at the searches real people make.

Our Editorial Approach

We follow a set of strict content principles across everything we publish:

• —Plain language above all. If a sentence requires prior knowledge of geopolitical concepts to understand, it should be rewritten.
• —Specificity over vagueness. 'Markets could be volatile' is useless. '30% of global wheat supply is disrupted, which historically drives prices up 20–40% within 6 weeks' is useful.
• —Honest about uncertainty. We do not predict the future. We describe what is happening, what has happened in similar situations, and what to watch for.
• —Linked to authoritative sources. When we reference government advisories, commodity data, or official resources, we name them specifically so you can verify.
• —No false reassurance. If a situation is serious, we say so. Our job is to help you make informed decisions, not to minimise risk.

What This Site Is Not

Should I Be Worried? does not provide financial advice, legal advice, medical advice, or safety guarantees. The information on this site is for general informational purposes only. Nothing here should be the sole basis for investment decisions, travel decisions, or business decisions that have significant consequences for you.

We point you toward the best available information and frame it in a way that is useful for real decision-making. But we are a starting point, not a substitute for qualified professional advice when the stakes are high.

Contact

For questions, feedback, or to report inaccurate information, contact us at hello@shouldibeworried.org. We read everything.

If you are a journalist, researcher, or educator who wants to discuss the project or use it as a teaching resource, we welcome that conversation.