Is war likely?

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In the UK in the next few years given world events?

What do people think will happen?

My personal view is that it is likely though of course not inevitable - but there is a path now for Europe to step up - but with the mad orange man who knows what will happen.

Are you obsessed with me or something 😆

I think that’s enough now!

If @kungfoofighting wants to emigrate to a country where war isn't as much of a possibility then she is switched on IMO. I haven't got the energy to make this move and my DC are too old but I would definitely consider it if I was younger.

@kungfoofighting I agree it's fine to consider options.

*were younger!

You're the one that keeps replying like I said take some deep breathing and step away from the thread if it's causing anxiety

@Differentstarts there's no basis for saying the pp has anxiety, or needs to see a GP et

@kungfoofighting running away is the only sane response!

God knows.
I'd like to think not but the lunatics are running the asylum so fuck knows what will happen.

Back at ya babe, you started with the rudeness.

Babe? 🤣

Okay, @WhateverWillBeWillBloodyWellBe

In answer to the OP, no, Europe-wide war is extremely unlikely. There is no appetite for it after decades of peace (particularly in Russia, where so many of its conscripted young men have died). With European economies in downward spirals, it would be economic suicide too.

The sabre rattling is very typical of Putin and will die down.

Saying you will leave the country and planning where you will go is a very extreme response for something that has less then a 1% chance of happening. It's catastrophising and not something people with good mental health even think about as they know how unlikely this is to happen. If she wants to move for other reasons then great she should go for it but not just because she thinks where going to war that is not rational or healthy

Utter tosh.

Differentstarts

All she did was say she'd considered where she might move to...nothing from her post suggested she was serious about it. Then you started with the insults and p.a. comments. You do seem a bit fixated.

I sometimes wonder where I'd escape too if war started as well, isn't that human nature?

For those of you who think we should go to war and Starmer is doing A-ok - I hope you're going to volunteer your sons to be first in line? Or am I guessing right that those who are more gung-ho about it and think we should get involved don't have any family they're particularly bothered about so are happy to virtue signal about helping the "good guys"?

Agree on all this

Volunteer them for what. There are literally peace talks planned for Monday. It will get sorted i don't think we need to be panicking and planning for war as if ww3 did happen we would no very little about it. It wouldn't be anything like ww1 or 2 it wouldn't be men on the front line it would be a nuclear war. Which is why it won't happen as nobody no matter where you are would survive, so absolutely no point in planning or even thinking about it as there will be absolutely nothing you would be able to do about it. I don't know what p.a. comments means but if your talking about mental health it's nothing to be ashamed of and certainly not an insult. People who struggle with their mental health are some of the strongest people on the planet so I don't understand why the word anxiety would be seen as an insult. I thought we had moved way past the stigma that surrounds mental health

It feels very Orwellian at the moment and although I don't think WW3 is about to break out, I think we are seeing the start of the US going it alone. In the next decade I would be unsurprised if US/Russia/China form some form of superpower agreement making them superior to the rest of the world and essentially dominating global law, trade etc. The rest of the world will need to tow the line "or else".

All three have already made it perfectly clear that global rules, agreements and responsibilities do not apply to them and they will do as they please. Its quite worrying really.