To be seriously scared

[biscuitraider]

About the situation with Russia and the US. Putin said he'll shoot down any US missiles fired at Assad forces. Are we on the verge of all out war? Please calm me down.

There is a lot of fake stuff on Facebook, someone famous seems to die every day, there is always some crap on there.

Are you in Syria OP, if not I would not worry yourself too much and go back to Facebook

Yeah, i don't think "facebook" actually supplies the news, it just shows what's trending.

Solace? read what youarenotkiddingme said. It's all beginning to look a bit dodgy.

BBC is definitely not as good as it once was. Perhaps not fake news, but they all recycle histrionic tripe and press releases off each other now. The number of actual investigative journalists they have these days is minimal.

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This is obviously an attention seeking OP put on to get a reaction, Who uses a thread title like that, you can't tell what it is about.

I am not seriously scared, but I am a bit worried I must admit.

This is me too.

Essentially Trump and Putin both really worry me.

An attention seeking OP eh?

I’ve always said that Trump will kill us all

FGS people. Zuckerberg is currently being grilled by congress - right now - about this - fake news and mishandling of people's personal data.

www.wsj.com/articles/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-made-mistakes-on-fake-news-privacy-1523289089

It's pointless being scared. Stop watching/reading the news and get on with living your life. Even Putin and Trump aren't stupid enough to attack the other, especially with the massive weaponry amassed on each side. If it happened the result would be armageddon, AKA the end of the world so you would have nothing to worry about ever again.

definitely

There is a lot of fake stuff on Facebook, someone famous seems to die every day, there is always some crap on there.

Yes, and if you get your news source from Doofus McDoofus' facebook status then yes that's an issue.

But if you follow the Times, the BBC or click on a "trending" link to various news sites you have a choice of where to get your news from.

It's like saying "you can't get your news from television!" Because Fox news is on TV.

Who uses a thread title like that, you can't tell what it is about.

Someone who is seriously scared of impending war?

biscuitraider I'm so glad I'm not up to date with the news right now. I had a serious nervous breakdown when the ebola episode was going on!

They didn't mention a war though, it could have been about the next door neighbour

FGS people. Zuckerberg is currently being grilled by congress - right now - about this - fake news and mishandling of people's personal dat

Again that's fake news sources on facebook. The OP isn't talking about some made up situation she read about from her Great uncle Fred's FB feed. It's actual news.

I am scared, OP, but I do suffer from anxiety and world events and fear of war do really affect me.

What others have said have made a lot of sense rationally.

In addition, I do try and think about the fact that car accidents happen every day, terrorist attacks happen with increasing regularity, and yet I don't worry about getting in a car or change my plans to go to a city location or event, and in the probability of statistics those things are more likely to hurt me than war.

I also find I worry a lot more when I am off work (teacher) and have less to think and focus on.

I also think I am going to stop reading the news, as suggested by previous posters, as you don't get the full story, and it is often sensationalised so people read and react to it. I stopped watching the news a few years ago, but I find myself religiously checking BBC news. I set limits on myself so I don't check after 9pm (and then stay awake worrying all night!). I think I'm now going to stop reading it altogether - after all, there's nothing I can do.

Finally I might screenshot this to remind myself of it all when I inevatibly worry again (which may well be in a matter of hours!)

This is obviously an attention seeking OP put on to get a reaction, Who uses a thread title like that, you can't tell what it is about.
That's absolutely not true, so many posts don't give details in the heading. Why would you even think that,

I wish we could put the pair of them in a desert and let them fight it out themselves.

Just to show the OP 'twas ever thus ...

We worried in the 80s too ....

If it's any consolation I read an article a while back that said, for all it's sabre rattling and aggressive rhetoric, Russia is not the superpower it used to be. It's economy is barely ¹/₆ of the UK and therefore would be obliterated in open battle with a united 'west'. Russia knows this and that is why it is trying to cause instability in the west through meddling.

MessyMcDoogal Trump is not in the White House because Russia put him there. He is the president because people such as myself put him there. We did not want Hillary who is anti-American with her dreams of no borders. I was a former Democrat who voted for Trump.

We elected a billionaire who loves America. We did not want another slick talking polished money grabbing politician. Sex scandals! I don’t give a shit and I didn’t either when President Bill Clinton was getting blow-jobs from interns - remember how Hillary attacked the women?

You are not "super duper informed” as you think you are because you are obliviously only getting your information from anti -Trump sources and your calling the President of the United States a “poison Orange Goblin” speaks volumes.

We lived through threat of nuclear war in the 80's. Everyone was sent booklets/leaflets informing us what to do. It was more scary that they advised us to hide under tables, cupboard under the stairs, remove a door from it's hinges and place it against a wall to shelter behind, to stay inside with all doors and windows closed for x number of weeks, etc. When I say "more scary", I mean their opinion that we were all dumb enough to believe that advice would work. We often received advertising leaflets too, for nuclear shelters for your back gardens. And we're all still here!

They didn't mention a war though, it could have been about the next door neighbour

But everyone knows you're not supposed to mention the war.

A bit of bother in The Middle East might also conveniently take some of the spotlight off Mr. Ts bit of a problem with a porn star. FBI raided his lawyers. Paul Ryan Resigned. Another Defense Secretary resigned.
Don Jr. is being pinned down and looks likely to be in some sort of trouble though hard to say.
It a cluster fuck in Trumpworld at the moment and if he can do a bit of "look over here at this" it might distract from the issues on his doorstep.
And that is just the stuff we know about
Sometimes I think the news has turned into entertainment. People on tenterhooks waiting for the next awfulness to turn up.
What happened in Syria was awful and I feel so helpless watching civillians being decimated like that. Part of me wants something done, but I don't know what can be done except more violence, heavy artillery and mayhem.

We lived through threat of nuclear war in the 80's.

As did our parents in the 60s ....