@OMGTTC
Is that really what we think this is? With the planes? Is this going to really happen?
If it’s a scare tactic, it’s working.
Nobody can call this one way or the other at the moment, but I think it's important to remember that intimidation is Putin's MO. He has limited means available to him, so the only thing he can do is to rattle his sabre at us. I think it's so, so unlikely that Russia would advertise an imminent nuclear attack in such an obvious way that people are discussing it on mumsnet, Twitter etc.
Think of the threats he's made so far. Consequences like we've never seen in our history. Well, we've interfered like nobody's business, yet he hasn't actually done anything.
He's a cock and would be delighted to know that we're all worrying about it, it's like psychological warfare. So I think the best thing to do is as RTB says, get on as much as we can and see it as a big middle finger up to Putin and his cowardly bullying and threatening.