To be worried about this latest war.

It's the literal opposite. China has been building towards invading Taiwan for a long time now. But China, despite its physical size, has almost no oil. They rely on oil from Venezuela, Iran and Russia. Without it, their military is severely limited.

In January they lost Venezuelan oil. Now they are (most likely) losing Iranian. The odds of them being able to invade Taiwan have dropped hugely, and if anything had the potential to be the catalyst for a world war, it was that.

It will be fine.
I have enough to worry about so can't even think about anything else.
Life deals enough sadness to families. There are people dealing with tragedy within their own homes.
No matter what anyone says will bring any optimism to people in this mindset.
Every positive is met by the OP stating "but this seems worse..."
Speculation doesn't help anyone. There have been so many threads over recent years.
I personally have enough to deal with having just lost my mum very suddenly and unexpectedly.

Now reported in Telegraph:
An explosion has been reported at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.

Unconfirmed reports suggested the incident, which took place at around midnight local time (10pm GMT), may have been caused by a drone.

A “small drone” had “impacted the airfield” in Limassol, the Cyprus Mail reported.

Other reports suggested the explosion was caused by a missile, with The Sun citing unconfirmed claims that as many as seven missiles were inbound and may have been launched from Lebanon.

If launched from Lebanon, the potential attack is likely to have been orchestrated by Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy group.

RAF Akrotiri is home to thousands of military personnel and their families.

Personnel were apparently told to “move away from windows and take cover behind or beneath substantial, solid furniture”.

It's basically Iran against everyone else, so not going to be much of a war. Their proxies have been decimated over the past couple of years, Russia's bogged down in Ukraine and China is pretty unlikely to do anything; they didn't help Russia when they were just fighting Ukraine, they're hardly likely to help Iran when it would mean direct conflict with the USA (and the entire rest of the world, bar Russia and N Korea), for no discernible benefit to themselves. So not too worried about this one escalating, though obviously hope anyone in range of Iran can stay safe while they fire off their last hurrah. And desperately hope the transfer to a new democratic non-evil Iranian regime goes smoothly, which I think is probably the most concerning thing.

I do believe the RAF base in Cyprus has been hit by a drone,it’s all over X and there are a lot of US and RAF planes in the area.Just looked at flight radar.

Very good point.👍

I really hope it's a something over nothing really don't want the UK pulled into this.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/03/02/security-threat-declared-at-uk-cyprus-bases

mitht be true!

I'm more worried about another 7/7.

Only the Daily mail is mentioning a drone hit indeed. I have foundcit now.

Only going by Daily mail headline saying it was a drone attack.

@JoeyHeathertonwhenyoucallmebabyNsoul. Can you confirm this with a source as I can only see news that doesn’t confirm an actual hit.

No news outlet in UK is stating a hit at present.
Only nearby in Bahrain and towards Cyprus, intercepted.
I think UK will allow the use of its bases, as a response.
But not getting involve on offensive opperations as yet.

It's a daily mail headline..no confirmation of casualties as yet.

Don't think staying out of it is an option now that an RAF base has been hit

Has it? When?
I thought they had shot on that direction, but it was intercepted?

We have gone through this two times by now.
I think it will not turn global.
But may involve the whole ME.
Let"s get ready for price hikes.
And let's hope Starmer keeps us well out of it. We need whatever we have to deal with Putin!

RAF base in Cyprus has been hit.

I believe it started on 911 personally and won’t stop until something really bad happens such a Hiroshima.

i know w that’s sounds dreadful but it’s just a feeling I’ve had for decades.

I’ve seen this and surprised there is not a separate thread on here, I’ve probably missed it. Seems like a u-turn from PM from earlier today. Agree very worrying.

Starmer announced that the US can use UK military sites for defensive strikes, and UK, Germany and France preparing to take their own defensive action against Iran. That's sounding pretty world-y and pretty war-y.

All large-scale conflict is worrying. Many are anxious.

But think of it this way. We were much more likely to end up in global war if Iran had been left to plot and meddle and develop ever more lethal and longer-range weapons. Now that Iran’s military is being pulverised we’re much safer.

And we can hopefully provide a much better future for the oppressed people of Iran.

6 years is a long time in politics, especially when you're not in charge

When has any British Govt not jumped to attention when America has clicked it's fingers.
Unfortunately I can't see that ever changing.

Sky news. UK terror threats absolutely under review….