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Most of us will be at home fighting about whether it should really be called WWIII, while only an unlucky few fight the actual war. Global capital will soldier on.

There's different possible outcomes of course, but I believe only in the absolute worst case (dozens of nukes across Europe and North America) do the banks stop caring who owns Amazon, even if Amazon is manufacturing attack quadcopters.

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of investing.

Societies have failed to develop industrial scale investing for centuries. E.g. the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, due to high levels of endemic corruption. A societal trust/faith breakdown may indeed bring an end to investing as we know it. The countdown for the crumbling of the spiritual foundations of Western Civilization continues apace.

Yep, need that robust barter economy to support the production of sticks and stones for WWIV :-)