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Worried about WW3 after the Zelensky meeting

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Lavenderfarmcottage · 02/03/2025 14:08

Genuinely shocked like most people after witnessing Vance & Trump descend into ‘The Real White House Husbands of Washington DC’. The world is looking very vulnerable right now. I’m not quite ready to build a bunker but it is seriously concerning.

Over the last couple of weeks, Australia has had sightings of Chinese war ships off the coast of Sydney. There is talk that Taiwan now looks very vulnerable to China. What about Australia though ? We’ve relied on the USA incase of a large case act war.

I fear Australia is a sinking ship.

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NoraLuka · 02/03/2025 14:21

Is everything else in your life ok, OP? Not being sarky but sometimes these things have more impact if we’re not feeling great anyway - I actually cried after watching that interview but never would have done if I wasn’t already worried sick about DD2.

One good piece of advice I’ve had is to actively choose how you’re going to stay up to date with the news and not just keep watching rolling news or social media. So for example you only watch the evening news, or read a daily newspaper (online or paper) and then leave it at that. That cuts out a lot of the analysis about what might happen, a lot of which is just filling time on the 24/7 news channels.

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 02/03/2025 14:19

Yanbu, I think about it all the time

Part of that though is being taught LOADS about ww2 throughout my education 😭 but yes I am very very worried, especially as a londoner.

TeenLifeMum · 02/03/2025 14:15

I’ve been reflecting a lot on this and 2 things have come of this in my brain -

  1. This is probably how it’s always been but just behind closed doors.
  2. there is a real opportunity for the uk to build stronger relationships with Europe and Canada than ever before, healing the EU rift from leaving and uniting against a common enemy. I have to believe some good/unintended consequences are possible or it would be too depressing.