Military conscription

Thank you . Don't worry, I certainly don't plan to move until I've got established in my job. Fingers crossed the situation has improved by then! I have studied Spanish and am keeping this up.

Let’s say you get to Uruguay - how would you earn money there? To find a job, you’ll need work experience and probably need to speak Spanish - do you have Spanish skills and work experience?

Your posts worry me a bit, because they don’t seem very connected to reality and you’re up all hours of the night whilst studying for a degree. Please focus on your degree and enjoying university as best as you can.

I'll make my decisions based on the likelihood of that happening. At the moment it seems lower, but France, Germany, and the UK army itself are clearly all worried.

Conscription would probably only happen if UK were invaded. Your sons would probably have to fight (and you too). Hopefully we won't be invaded,, it certainly won't be first on Putin's list.

Conscription would probably only happen if the UK was being invaded, so I think 'if your own side leaves you out, the enemy won't' is relevant.

You sound all very brave. 👍

For those who would consider immigration, Uruguay is better to immigrate to as immigration requirements are not as stringent as NZ.

I think the pp comments on geography are relevant.

Even if your own side does leave you out of it, the enemy won't.

We are an island , granted so invading us would be different to countries with borders. The Germans literally rolled into other countries.
But even so our Navy was powerful and I do think our fighting spirit wouldn’t have allowed an easy surrender.

I think a famous saying was if you had the tactics of a German officer , and the fighting spirit of a British soldier , you’d have the perfect Army.

I think all of this could also be said (apart from the bit about the sea) for the other countries Hitler invaded, especially the larger ones - e.g. France, Poland, but he still invaded them, so that makes me think the sea and the Navy/RAF is the main thing that saved us. Our geography really did save us.

Not much good though if you have enemy forces in your country. What else can you do but fight them ?

If Germany had of actually invaded Britain would it really have worked and for how long?

First, the Royal Navy was very big , it would have took an awful lot of resources to penetrate through our naval defences.

It would have been a formidable task to defeat Britain by sea.

Secondly, the coast would have been defended by not just the Home Guard, but pretty much anyone who was capable of fighting. Your talking about potentially millions of civilians ready to fight.

Lastly, how would Germany have actually occupied Britain?

We are a very proud nation, we were tough when needed. The population left at home would have probably been 40 million or so ( at a guess).

I dont think the average British civilian would have taken kindly to the German forces invading us.

They simply wouldn’t have allowed it.

German only had an Army so big. How would they have had enough manpower to control us on our own soil?

If they tried to conscript my sons (I have 6) they would have to pry them from my cold dead fingers.

Fuck them. These presidents/high ups that want to start dick swinging wars and playing boom boom military games, they can fight it out amongst each other, leave the rest of us out of it.

I don’t know much about Hitler’s plans to invade Britain, but I always thought he’d planned to invade in 1940 - rather than 1944. I thought the Battle of Britain in 1940 then messed up his plans, because Britain’s air superiority helped them get an upper hand over Germany.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion

Oh right. How come you didn’t say ‘invaders’ to start with?

I do, apologies I should have said invaders.

‘Illegal boat men’? You do have a way with words.

But as we now know, Hitler was absolutely delusional. And there was zero chance Operation Sealion would ever work.

The British people weren't aware of this. But the British government were.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing 😀

I don't disagree with this. It has got much better over the last 15 years but like all services in the NHS funding is an issue.

I disagree with the bull shit the pp posted about service personnel being used to stir hatred. It is untrue. I'm not a fan of the last few tory governments, but even they didn't do that.

Anyone using a group of people to further their agenda can get to fuck, particularly this group of people. You come at my family, you come at me.

Why someone ends up on the street even if they were given a home to begin with. Serious mental health breakdown ,someone in the army would be very vulnerable to this if they had been through the trauma of war. There should be more mental health support for them .

As a daughter, wife and mother of military veterans, in the UK, that is not my experience.

Tommy ten names and co like to pretend it is though, although the "patriots" wouldn't know if it was hanging off their noses.
They just piss me off by how they use and misrepresent veterans.

I live in the UK & it's exactly like that here!!

Perhaps just focus on your degree instead of moving to bloody Uruguay to avoid a war that probably won’t happen.

Hitler's plan was a war with Britain to start around 1944. He intended to have sufficient large warships and U-boats as well as other resources. The colonies would have been grabbed and Britain under nazi control. Whether as a slave state or a less willing ally would depend.

Gosh, that sounds dreadful.
I'm so glad it's not like that in the UK.
What country do you live in?