To wonder if anyone has or is considering moving to a country that's less likely to be involved if Putin attacks a NATO country. (title edited by MNHQ at request of OP)

I know you didn't ask me but Flutter Butter is good. We're overrun with them. We'll be in debtors prison soon as we have to buy so much.

Yes but India would surely not be involved enough to actually fight on their home front or be invaded?

Just to add... we wouldn't move just incase. It would be to avoid an actual war happening on our home front or conscription dragging away DH. The choice of India, USA or China is because this is where my companies other large subsidiaries are based- so i could work here and do the same job, for same pay (which would be extremely high vs cost of living in India) etc... it would be moving country semi-temporarily but not starting again from scratch. Could probably apply for a temporary work visa - that kind of thing.

But no
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Not thought about it too much 😂

India supplied the biggest volunteer army in WWII. They will be involved. But unlike WWII, we won't have Russia, China or India on our side this time.

That's the problem here.

The way the rest of NATO came to help out England during the Falklands War?

Lmao, how old are you?

Yes we actually have. I work for a large company, in a global role. If WW3 kicked off i would hopefully be able to move my household family to India, USA or even China. Given the choice probably India, as i think application process would be easier and out of the 3 they are less likely to be involved.

NATO nuclear weapons are not past their "sell by date" or unlikely to work. Nuclear weapons are very well understood, as is their maintenance. They're not just sitting there decaying.

Would I or anybody in my family consider running away? No.

Disgusting.

Stupid though I know I sound, you make me want to drag out and re-read Kingsley Amis's "Russian Hide and Seek".

SouthernNights59 · Today 03:34
You've got some good yields there
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Shove a stick in the ground where we are, and you'll get a tree. It's that fertile.

Me? I’m a fucking massive coward, and absolutely fine with that, thanks.

Carla786
On NZ, my concern re that is that it's sinking. How serious is this threat though?

Sinking? Where? The subduction zone? Not in my lifetime. The loonies running the world are far more dangerous than a bit of tectonic plate action.

OP, what skills would you bring to the country that you choose to move to?

You've got some good yields there @pollyglot

Oops

DH is English, long-term Royal Navy. Very interested in politics and military matters. We moved back to NZ, my homeland, a few years ago, on retirement, and not a day goes by, when he has read and digested the news, that he doesn't say "Thank God we're here and not there. At least in NZ, we can feed ourselves and are self-sufficient in energy." Yes, boringly repetitious, but heartfelt. The predictions for NATO and Europe in general are terrifying.

Unless of course the fat orange barrage balloon wants our beneficent land...there are loads of very rich foreigners hunkering down in the peaceful remote beaches and mountains. Sometimes it's good to be boring and remote.
(image...my garden produce)

Ireland is beginning to take defence seriously, as it could come under threat due to its strategic importance in transatlantic communications.

Sweden and Finland were neutral until the invasion of Ukraine.

Switzerland and Austria relied on their geography to protect them -Austria was regarded as too difficult to maintain by Russia after WWII. Modern warfare might change things.

New Zealand and Australia could be threatened by China if there's a global conflict.

Greenland was always regarded as one of the safest refugees in the world. Look at it now...

I’ve had my plans for almost a year now, thanks Trump! Ideally my parents and kids go to England. My husband and I argue about me going. I probably do. We have meeting points set for our own country and for England. I should update it to teaching my eldest the meet up points. If we don’t evacuate, I resist and he fights in an organized way/if the kids and grandparents are gone then I also join the army or official resistance.

Worst case we give big knives to our youngest and he goes full Reepacheep on the unsuspecting assholes.

No its not hyperbolic as we haven't upgraded them since trident and that was 1980. They still run on 1980s electronics and computers they still use original floppy discs ffs. They are well beyond obsolete

A coward. Definitely a coward. I'd rather be at the centre of the strike and get it over and done with

If they've got down to me on the conscription list we're all doomed.