Which of your children would take up arms if need be to defend their country

None of them. If our family unit was directly attacked we would fight to the death to protect each other. Before anyone looks to take my sons they can take all their own young men back.

Same for me.
Nor Israel or Palestine.

That was depressingly quick. How to turn any subject into a potshot at immigrants.

Fighting for your country shouldn't mean to the death.

Some escaping civil war or other internal violence, which is very different to the scenario given here. Your own country's army/government attacking you, imprisoning and torturing you, versus fighting an external attacker. No power, no arms - how do you fight? you don't know what you'd do in this circumstance unless you've lived it.

Actually an annoying post. Nobody wants to fight. But nobody wants to suffer what happened in Bucha. It depends on the situation.

Look at the people who voted for Brexit and Reform. Not exactly the brains of the country. Anyone with half a brain would see through it. All a social media campaign would do is attract the people who would go anyway.

A lot of the educated males fled Russia. So it didn’t have much influence on them.

None of my kids would go because they know all wars are funded and profited on both sides by the same people whose children would never be near a front line. Anyone who happily waves their kids off to war is an idiot.

Oh, it’s a racism post! I wondered what your point was.

In the event of an invasion I don’t know what I’d do - I don’t know if the invaders would recognise Wales and Scotland as separate countries so escaping there wouldn’t necessarily save us.

However if a nuclear bomb was dropped then I’d grab dh and the pets and march towards the mushroom cloud. I have no desire to survive a nuclear bomb.

I do think rather than younger generations getting dragged into real wars maybe Putin/Netanyahu/Trump need to get more into something like Fortnite and other similar games. Satisfy that craving they clearly have .

If Britain was attacked and all our lives were on the line, there's a chance that they would. To go and defend Finland or Lithuania from Russian aggression? No chance and over my dead body.

No I wouldn’t want my children to go to war for any government. The way we are treated is appalling, yes defending family but not the country. Things are very different now, we have so much more information and can make better informed choices. I am surprised so many would when you know that Blair took us into a war based on a lie and the shenanigans and lies during Covid. On that note I think we can also guess that it wouldn’t be the powers that be kids going in as cannon fodder, they’d be let off for some dubious reason or sat at head office doing important clever things. Given also the number of young people with disabilities and mental health problems frankly I’d be surprised we could send anyone anyway. We would leave the country and yes I’ve spoken to my DCs about this as it seems to keep being ‘floated’ in the media and neither of them would do it.

You say this as though being a Nazi is unimaginable. Most people in Germany in 1939 were happy to go along with it, at least to begin with.

Dulce et Decorum est…
Unfortunately I could see my primary age son thinking a war would be great fun, ‘Fortnite in Real Life’ and signing himself up.

If anyone has ever seen any of the Ukraine footage with the drones being used - I could see him being brilliant at that.
With a bit of training with an actual gun, he’d probably make a cracking sniper too.

It doesn’t give me any pleasure in knowing this and the cynic in me thinks these games are designed to get our children to train themselves for modern war- which is more about operating complex targeting systems than ‘boots on the ground’

My mum was upset that one of our kids had the middle name Joseph, because of Stalin. He killed more people than Hitler (including 2 of my Mum's uncles).

Mine are far too young. But my brothers/cousins and partner would.

I would if I didn’t have the kids.

Ditto

My DS had this conversation with his 6th form friends. He was the only one who would fight.

Similar to this.

If we were being bombed by Nazis then yes.

If I felt like WE were actually in the wrong, then no.

I think DH and most of my relatives would feel the same.

Sadly your children are representative of many people. Look at how people fell for Brexit and Reform. They were very good on social media.

Good point. Any form of extremist would be worth fighting against. Once you get so far right or left they are virtually the same in their abhorent treatment of people. The extreme right tend to pick on a specific group where as the extreme left surpress 99% of the people.

Once the politicians, super rich, landed gentry and royals (and their children) take up arms, my kids and I can fill in behind them.