Is something about to happen?

Yes, something is definitely about to happen.

Something also happened last week.

And the week before.

Not to mention the week before that.

No more than usual given the present shenanigans in the ME and the rest of the world.

Life has a tendency to trundle on for the majority of people so focus on what's going on in your immediate surroundings and stay away from the socials and the news. There's no point in worrying about what you have no control over.

@Canyoumakecoffeeinamicrowave I just feel as if I will retreat. I think this will impact all of us.We are fools if we think it's just in some far off land.

I am of an age where I can retreat. i feel sorry for struggling families.
Oh and I'm not a rich boomer before anybody jumps.

I am angry with Trump and Netanyahu. This Iran war is illegal and unnecessary.

https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-world-order

Actually that’s not strictly true about people driving less. Petrol demand is pretty much inelastic economically; people will keep paying whatever it costs until they physically can’t.

Necessity/convenience makes it so.

The advice to drive less and 'only go somewhere in the car if it's necessary' makes me roll my eyes into the back of my head.

Yeah sure, when petrol is £2.50 to £3.00 a litre, I will be tootling around the mountain roads in Snowdonia, and taking 3 day trips to the coast 3 times a week!

FFS, do they think we're all stupid?! Of course people are going to cut down on driving as much as they can if the price of petrol doubles - or trebles!

Your feed deals you more of what you watch, if you watch a couple of conspiracy nuts, your whole feed is going to end up looking like that.

You struggle with anxiety so keep away from SM or use it productively and not related to these type of topics, for recipes ideas or whatever and get your news from MSM.

@Womaninhouse17 , I am anxious but I keep busy and don't listen to nonsense.

I am getting scared. Our minds were messed with Covid, Ukraine caused a fuel crisis, this will make prices rise. I hope I don't petty because of course it's hideous what is happening to people in war zones.

Delete all your soical media.

Erm I don’t think they were

Take a look at the Al Jazeera news website. If anything UK press is under-reporting how serious it is. The strike on a desalination plant is particularly concerning.

Things are always happening, or about to happen . Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, at any time during the last four years any of these could have erupted and involved more countries and people. Global warming, floods, hurricanes, storms, forest fires, again things all over the world but with similar outcomes.

We hear about awful things all the time because news gathering and information sharing is instant, in glorious technicolour and it is almost impossible to ignore. The only thing we have control of is our own reaction to news events, having anxiety doesn’t help, but you need to work on rationalising your fears and feelings, or as others have said, try to stop reading about them.

OP, do you have a job, what do you do with your time? I find that being busy is the best antidote to anxiety.

Yes, I’m probably going to come off on MN like I did during Covid due to absolute shitposting like this.

Yes, I’m probably going to come off on MN like I did during Covid due to absolute shitposting like this.

It’s highly likely people in my city are going to stockpile toilet paper.

I’m not going to stockpile fuel because it isn’t safe to store it.

If I can’t buy fuel I will just walk and bring a cart to my local shops.

There has been a recent train derailment so some products aren’t on the shelves. I absolutely refuse stockpile again.

Trump will be gone before the end of January 2029. The way I look at it is (until then) I’m going to be spending ridiculous amounts of money on fuel and everything will be more expensive at the shops.

However, the people of Iran are dying in the streets. World heritage sites are being destroyed. It will get to the point where the people of Iran won’t have food, shelter or clean water. They won’t have access to live saving medications. Plumbing systems will be destroyed and disease will spread. It will get to the point where children will either die of starvation or be orphaned.

My city already has a lot of Iranian people here. I expect that more will settle here due to the war. These people will be utterly broken due to trauma. There will be social problems because we don’t have enough housing. There will be mental health problems because we don’t have the public health systems in place for the population we currently have.

The absolute evil that is happening in Iran will leave its stain on generations.

I get that you are concerned for yourself. But things haven’t even begun to get difficult. Trump said he will continue until the entire Iranian government is gone.

We need to start having a conversation about what the US has done to Yemen, to Syria, to Iraq and to Libya.

But no doubt the topics on mumsnet will be “should I move to Dubai for hubby’s job?” or “my husband is rich - AMA!” Literally that is the tone of most of the discussions here.

Are you fucking serious?

I actually agree with you OP, my senses have been tingling too. Tbf they have before and nothing happened so I’m certainly not mystic meg. I think the USA getting involved in bombing another country is uncomfortable for the UK, given we are one of their closest allies. Feels a bit to close for comfort…

Yes, I feel like the early covid days too. Not just the awful genocides in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine, but the massive knock on economic affects. Scary times.

Definitely. Just carpet bomb the entire Iranian population into submission, so no one left to fire back, as Trump has already said.
That way, nobody will be hysterical except Iranians.

We’ve always had various wars. Best to just get on with life. Worrying doesn’t change a thing - life will do as it does.

I agree. I don't panic about every little thing or believe conspiracy theories. But the America/Iran thing is serious and could affect us badly, even if it's only petrol prices going up or fuel shortages. I think this is a dangerous time with stubborn, reckless men squaring up to each other.

This is why Trump and Israel need to ramp up the attacks so it can be over and done with. The longer this goes on for, the more hysteria there's going to be around what's happening and for potential impact on the rest of the world.

Someone who is on the gen x and millennial threshold.