The Wargame - a mobile alert has come through that missiles are headed your way...

[noblegiraffe]

I've just finished listening to The Wargame podcast - a scenario where Russia attacks the UK and a cabinet of politicians and experts react and make decisions in response. Ben Wallace is the Prime Minister, Amber Rudd is Home Secretary, Jack Straw is Foreign Secretary along with various others.

It was both interesting and terrifying to hear how screwed Britain is militarily, particularly with the US now promoting an America First policy. We appear to have barely any resources, and those that we do have seem to be largely out of service. The podcast is a long advert for increasing military spending.

There is a section where missiles are headed for London, there's nothing that can be done about it, and the government decide to use the new emergency alert system to send a message to everyone's mobiles that missiles are incoming. Which is great, but then what? The is a question about whether people should get under the kitchen table.

What would you do? Should we know what to do? The podcast seems to suggest that this is something that needs addressing.

Anyway, I think it's a really good listen (although slow to get going) and some of the fake news segments are really quite chilling.

https://news.sky.com/story/the-wargame-podcast-what-if-russia-attacked-the-uk-13381047

Nuclear it’s over and I do not want to be around for sure. Conventional strike I’m unsure. If I was really young then maybe I would feel a bit more positive. I suppose I could volunteer at a field hospital or something if they would have me as my registration is decades out of date.

You'll be pilloried as a post-apocalyptic slattern by the ravaging mobs of looters! 😡

I think in that situation they would probably welcome someone who got their first aid badge in Brownies.

The problem with the incoming missile is that you don't know whether it is nuclear or not until it lands and there is a mushroom cloud or not. So you could panic about a nuclear missile and head towards the impact zone for a quick death and it turns out to be non-nuclear and heading towards the impact zone was the stupidest thing to do.