Should we be worried about war

[Seasidesand76]

Seen a lot in the news about Ukraine using USA missiles against Russia. I've been thinking more along the lines that it won't start a WW3 and will resolve at some point without the UK getting directly involved in war. But there seems to be more and more tension and threats of an all out war recently.

Should we be worried about WW3? I haven't been prepping or anything but does make me wonder if I should start getting a few days worth of food in case. At the same time I don't want to go down the prepper hole and start getting over the top.

I think they'll target one of the smaller states, like Estonia or Latvia before they attack Poland. Poland is spending a lot of resources rearming and training its military and will be a tough nut to crack. I agree that after the fighting ends in Ukraine, it will take Russia at least three years to reconstitute its army.

I also served in the military in the late 80's and early 90's and agree that tensions were much higher then than they are now. The Soviet Union was a much more formidable adversary than Russia today, particularly after the losses in Ukraine.

i agree it is very embarrassing for Russia. This has been terrible for them.

It's a bit sus.

@SummerFeverVenice Russia will not directly attack the UK, they would lose too many allies. Including China. Putin would not dare. He is full of shit.

No

Yes, but nevertheless many of the components “ rot” for want of a better expression and so all owners have to indulge in routine maintenance which takes effort and comes at a cost, doesn’t matter whether you plug and play it or ship whole devices back to the Russian equivalent of Burghfield.

All that said I’m not for one moment saying you can assume the Russian arsenal would not work at all, but there is far more to keeping these things viable than simply catering for the half life of Plutonium.

My view too ☹️

It would be stupid because the risk of Russia being annihilated would be extremely high.

In a nuclear war it doesn't matter how good your army is. Nuclear war would be fought using missiles.

I have started to think it may well be headed in that direction. It looks like Russia is not trying to take out the underseas data cables in the baltic sea between countries near them that recently joined NATO, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/europeans-hint-at-possible-russian-sabotage-as-undersea-cables-damaged/ar-AA1umaA5

Well if nuclear annihilation doesn't sort out the alleged problem of over-population the anti-abortionists are stepping up to deal with it by trying to strip away our rights as the US has done.

Difficult to feel anything other than the world is fucked in every direction ATM. Honestly I'm too old for this shit.

Currently exercising my right to identify as a cat.

And yet you still have capacity to comment shite on MN .. shouldn't you go back to splitting the atom

US warheads have been dropping in the Middle East and surrounding nations for years, on and off.

Iranian and Russian Saudi-funded warheads have been dropping in a number of countries around the Middle East and surrounding nations for years, on and off.

Similar has been going on, on and off, across central Africa for years.

There are a small number of players, who use other countries and their populations as their battlegrounds and foot soldiers (because an American or European or Russian life > other peoples's lives).

WW3 has been raging for years, in multiple ways, in multiple places. Ask yourself why you're worrying now.

So you are saying if Russia attacked, we would use a nuclear weapon? I think that would be stupid of us,

I'm not going to worry myself about prepping and getting into apocalyptic survival mode, if it comes to WW3 then I should imagine we'd all be in for a swift end! I don't think it will happen in the near future anyway.

Shhhh! She’s busy with her busy important job!

When I was an elementary school girl in the Washington, DC area in the 1960s, our teachers would have us do nuclear war drills, where we knelt down in front of our lockers and put our hands behind our heads. We were told it was to protect us from nuclear fallout, but when I got older I realized that it was really to identify our incinerated remains using the locker numbers. Fun times!

No point worrying, OP.

These components you mention aren’t part of the nuclear warhead. That’s what I am saying. They can be put on a brand new shiny missile. Things have moved on a lot to what you are remembering.

I'm buying my head in the sand . It's not a problem until it is

And you think Russia will magically fly over the rest of Europe to attack the UK with conventional forces (which they don't have spare)? An attack that would bring the rest of NATO down on them like a ton of bricks?

You are either extremely naïve or have some other motive.

I did actually specify a direct attack, when you said I had not.

Now you are saying I did not acknowledge “indirect attacks”- which is true and I said as much- but that isn’t what you initially objected to (see above)

Assassination of intelligence operatives and cyber attacks are examples of indirect attacks, and I am saying there is a limit to “amping” this up.

Which makes the government's attack on farmers even more crazy

Oh yes, the nuclear warhead is the simple bit. You basically get a bit of plutonium and hit it REALLY hard with a brick.

That's why all the countries have nuclear bombs but no missiles to put them on...

Well, you terrorise yourself with visions of apocalyptic wars (the horrors of which can apparently be thwarted with a cupboard full of tins) decimating your mental health and the cascade of physical consequences that follow, while I get on with living my life peacefully.

It's amazing to see how many people are enthusiastically encouraging posters to doom spiral their way to misery.

I am not as confident in NATO protection once Trump is in office. Without the US, NATO is less powerful than Russia.

And btw Russia can “magically” fly to the U.K. without ever going over any European airspace. They have already practised this a few times with warplanes and submarines.

I don’t have any motive, I am answering the OP by saying I am concerned. We are in a vulnerable position rn.

Being prepared for those just in case times isn’t just about war.

You could get Ill and not be able to shop, or there could be snow. All sorts of things.
I always have extras in, yes even lots of toilet roll🤣.

If you have the space it’s worth doing.

PS Where are you @icecreamscoops ( if you’re ok to say ). Happy with basic longitude and latitude 🙃