How are you preparing for war?

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I believe we will be personally and bodily at risk in the course of 2025

I live in a flat in the centre of a major city. I think there are pros and cons to this in a war situation. Inability to stockpile is a big one.

What are you doing (large or small)?

Even if they were, that was completely different. Worrying you might be ill for 3 weeks and run out of loo roll has zero to do with preparing for a war that isn’t happening

Eh? I'm going to do very little to prep. If it happens it happens. *Should the worst case scenario happen, I'll nip next door but one, ask him to roll one of his joints for me and I'll go sit on a garden lounger and wait for it to happen.

*highly unlikely, probably a load of tech shenanigans and posturing.

The apocalyptic scenarios assume a case of total war ie the entirety of CEE and Western Europe is being invaded (ala the world wars) and we need to send our professional army and then conscript armies to stop it. But we're now part of an alliance that is currently much stronger than Russia, even without the US. Europe's task now is to invest like crazy in defence so that we can maintain an overmatch with Russia as they begin to reconsolidate. The best rung you can do to "prepare" is to get behind defence spending, despite the very difficult choices for other public services etc that that will entail

Honestly, and I am not being flippant, but nothing.

There is no point is spending our lives worrying and preparing for someone that we cannot control and nor can we prepare for.

I hope, as we all do, that it doesn't come to WW3, but I cannot go through my days worrying about it.

So, I am carrying on as normal and avoiding the news unless I choose to read it.

How am I preparing? I’m not

if there's a war that red button will be pushed and it will be the end, so no point

No, we were the ones saying then ‘calm down dear, no one is going to run out of loo roll’. On the other hand people like you were here posting threads “omg are we all going to die of covid?”.

I'm ensuring my legs are shaved, nails freshly painted and I've stocked up on some stylish combat gear 😎 I think it's important to look good even at the worst of times because it keeps morale up and sets a good example.

How about this? It’s quite stylish without being too in your face military.

I'm off down the footie. Come on you Blues 💙⚽💙⚽💙⚽

The war won't be with Russian boots on British soil - at least not immediately, and hopefully never. Preparing for a Russian amphibious assault over the white cliffs of Dover will be purely idiotic now.
Prepare for energy and network blackouts. For cyber attacks paralysing banking systems and supply chains. For rioting by disenfranchised youth - think 2011 London riots, but 100 times worse. Psychological terror on social networks, aided by AI segmentation and profiling, with every useful idiot weaponised to create disruption. Terrorism. Airspace disruption. Global trade breaking down and immediate economic effects. These are all quite realistic and not too far fetched scenarios.

I’m peri menopausal, I’m tired, my house is a tip, DH is doing my head in and my children aren’t listening to me. Consider me ready to go, mf’s 😡

No, we weren't. And please, in the name of all things holy, get a fucking grip 😬

I’m fine. DH is ex military, can build and defuse bombs and we can both shoot. He can booby trap our avenue, I’m sure the neighbours will approve.
It will be just like Red Dawn.

I’m all for it, if only to see the Pally flag shaggers and the antifa black bloc idiots pissing their pants.

I've converted my dining table into a Morrison shelter.

Absolutely nothing, like the other rational people.

For rioting by disenfranchised youth - think 2011 London riots, but 100 times worse.

@zendeveloper why will youths be rioting? Because they don’t want to fight or because there will be food shortages and if there are network blackouts then internet won’t work?

I'm loving it 🥰😄

Just life as it is now, then? 😂

Why did they in 2011? I think it will be internal issues magnified and split by propaganda. Occupy Wall Street - style.

Or we can all go down the Winchester and wait for it to blow over.

Why did they in 2011? I think it will be internal issues magnified and split by propaganda. Occupy Wall Street - style.

Yes, except the authorities may be stricter if we’re at war, and bring in emergency laws to try to prevent that sort of thing. For example I think in WW 2 laws were brought in allowing anyone seen as a threat, such as Oswald Mosley, to be locked up without a trial.

I agree. I think, however, it will be hard to contain if it is widespread.

The shooting of mark duggan?!?

Was that a genuine reason for most people, do you think? I remember seeing a video with interviews with some of rioters and they had no idea who he even was - just everyone around them went to loot and they joined in.

Of course that’s always what happens in riots- people see an excuse to smash in a shop window and take stuff. It’s not really a big deal though, rarely lasts more than a week before they’re all exhausted, arrested or the weather turns bad 😂