To be worried about this latest war.

It makes me wonder at what point WWs one and two were called that.

Just to update, if you are silly for worrying about it, then so are NATO, so you are in good company (from Al Jazeera):

NATO adjusting forces to counter ‘potential threats’

NATO is closely following developments in Iran and the Middle East, with their top commander in Europe adjusting forces as needed to defend against “potential threats”, the alliance said in a statement.

NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, US General Alexus Grynkewich, “continues to speak actively and regularly with military leaders on both sides of the Atlantic,” a NATO spokesperson said.

The top commander “has and will continue to adjust NATO’s very strong force posture to ensure the security of its 32 member nations and to defend the Alliance from potential threats, such as ballistic missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles, emanating from this or other regions,” the statement added.

You're not strange for feeling anxious. This feels different because the whole Middle East has been actively dragged in, and we have only just had the US threaten to destroy NATO by taking Greenland.
Russia and China are allied with Iran, and Putin has called the US and Israel's actions illegal.
Iran has said all US and Israeli assets are fair game, and the UK has US assets, however Iran does not have the range to target UK soil with munitions.
We are already in grey zone conflict with Russia and Iran, with both having conducted low level missions on UK soil.
So, we are involved, but not directly, and if affected it is more likely to be terrorist attack, supply chain or cyber attack than bombs.

I’m not talking about protests. I’m talking about the kind of incidents where people get hurt or worse.

Haha get stuffed.

Which experts?

And experts in what?

@StillCreatingAName , so there's been no Antisemitism attacks, or terror plots stopped, because of the Palestinian situation? We haven't had attacks on women and children, in protest? We all imagined the London Bridge and other stabbings, as well as the cars mounting the pavements?

There are a lot of experts saying WW3 has already started. I think they’re probably right.

Trump doesn't seem to have the attention span for long wars. Having killed the Ayatollah and a few innocent schoolgirls along the way he can now happily continue as Prince of Peace and leave other people to sort the mess out. At least that's how he usually operates.

I vividly remember the Gulf War as a teen and us all being petrified that WW3 was around the corner. When you’ve lived to see what happens through many of these wars it is easier to hope/accept things will de-escalate.

Iran and Saudi Arabia are the two countries voting for nick dick in the ME. The 7/10 terror attacks were very likely done my Hamad at the behest of Iran to stop the Israeli/Saudi agreement.

Iran has made a big mistake in attacking the other ME countries. It is to make them say "oh nasty America, protect us oh big Iran". The US and that's the US who has been dealing with friendly Arab countries for decades (leave trump out of it at the moment) can offer a lot more trade wise, fiance wise and support wise.

Like it or not, dick about with Israel and you will get dicked big time. Remember Israel only needs to.lodr one war and they cease to exist. We may not want to take tea with them, but they can look after themselves.

Oil prices will be affected, the exchange rates will jitter, but generally for most of us in the UK, life will go on. A few fuckwitted Shiites and allies may try stupidity. That will really encourage multiculturalism amongst the aqua blues.

The protests I've seen are the usual, white, middle class wankers. My Sister amd her friends, all, middle class wankers. will probably pause the Palestinian stuff and jump on this bandwagon.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/28/pro-iran-protesters-march-in-london/

Absolutely devastating that the school was hit and Trump should acknowledge and address the deaths of all the children, during this campaign.

@borderline53 WW2 came as no surprise to anyone. Along the decades, welfare, alms etc has often been given because those in charge are well aware that they need a fighting force for whatever war they are planning next.

Facebook called, they want their neighbourhood chat members back. Off you trot…

People did say that before WW2 because they didn't have access to all the information which made it inevitable.

We have access to too much information now, much of it false and scare-mongering.

Knock yourself out if you want to stress about something which is extremely unlikely to happen. You clearly want to since you won't accept any reassurance.

4: Netanyahu

Asking on MN is futile, they’ll just try to spin it round to imply you’re overly anxious etc in the hopes of starting a pile-on.
I take the point about all the previous wars having been rumoured to be the beginning of WW3, but I think the worrying difference this time, is 1. Trump, 2. Iranian missiles and 3. Bloody Trump!!

May the bloody Ayatollah burn in hell.

I'm not remotely worried. Iran is a pariah state. It has no credible allies, and it's going to take more than the support of Hezbelloh, the Houthis and Isis to counteract the US threat. Russia can't and won't get involved, they can barely afford the current war they're in.
There is no way China will get involved in with anything to do with the Middle East

I predict that it will go quiet soon... They are bombing other Arab countries, and I doubt if this continues that Saudi will just sit back and watch.

My only concern is any potential vacuum of power in Iran following the Ayatollah's death. But I think and hope that the youth and progressive people of Iran will uprise against any "like for like" replacement.

It's not leading to WWII. Iran is very weak now and we also have other Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE etc joining forces with the US to end them once and for all. For it to be WWIII who will fight for Iran? China? Russia? North Korea???

Russia has its hands full and China will not fight for Iran, I don't see the benefits and China only does things for its interests. Iran has lost influence with all its terrorists groups that it uses to attack its enemies like Hezbollah, Houthis etc.

I hope the people can continue to fight and kick out the regime once and for all.

I don’t think it will cause WW3 but I think we will have incidents/terrorism in the U.K. because of it, because there are so many Muslims who live in the U.K. now and SOME of those Muslims won’t be happy about what is happening in the ME as SOME Muslims still align themselves with those regions, rather than being for eg English.

Consequently and annoyingly I think we’ll experience issues on our own soil.

Try not to watch too much news OP.
Im more concerned with the.price of petrol and diesel. Just seen its up 5p since yesterday and my local FB page talking of queues for fuel this afternoon.
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IMO you only need to start worrying if Russia or China decide to weigh in and support Iran, and fingers crossed there is no sign of that. So far, this is just the same old same old and I think it’ll blow over in a few weeks (although I should admit that over Xmas 2019, my hubby was telling me about this new virus emerging in China and I pretty much said “oh, so it’s just the flu then, whatever”. So I’m no Mystic Meg)

Yes it’s not so much being involved in a physical war, it’s the effects of wars, we’ve had that already from the Russia /Ukraine war, there’s the potential for even more pain for us from this war.

Loads of posters speak like this on MN. They think it's acceptable hiding behind their gadgets.