So errrr what is the UK doing right now to enable its citizens to prepare for an attack from Russia?

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Are we just going for the head in the sand approach or are we going to get a pamphlet or something?

Not sure how much use three days worth of food would be either.

@PlopSofa there hasn't been a single successful test launch of SARMAT2. The latest test in September this year left a smoking crater where the launch silo used to be. Just another failed Putin project, along with being in Kyiv within ten days.

Didn’t we all get a booklet a few years ago about how to prepare for different emergencies

Thank you for this post. Is exactly what I was thinking when I wrote the thread. I’d actually like some well thought out guidance just as you describe. Why don’t the Swedish people panic buy which is what everyone is assuming people living in the UK would do? Is it because as someone said thread, they are more used to natural disasters/energencies?

Not on a snow day though, apparently the bulk of MN go to ground the moment there's a dusting.

Have you actually seen it? I don't think you have.

One of Putin's wonder weapons (I'm sure someone in a similar position in history used a similar phrase).

Like the Armata, frequently seen in parades but not in Ukraine.

@SuzieNine yes I know. I updated with another message a bit further down after double checking.

what a relief!

The Russian propaganda machine had def got to me!

I’ve played Fallout, I’ll be fine.

In all seriousness though, you just gotta hope you’re either far enough away from the blast to have no ill effects and are able to survive with no power, no supermarkets, and no water through the taps, or close enough that you get vaporised instantly.

I think it’s because there’s about four or five Putins publicly at the moment. Assassinating him would be like whack-a-mole.

When you look at how much Poland is spending on defence, it puts the UK to shame. Our politicians have been asleep at the wheel.

It's not about nukes though. That's your own fantasy playing out there.

Nuclear attack I would top myself. No point trying to survive that.

i assume it’s infrastructure attacks, NHS, internet, food supply. About all you can do is have candles and tins of food. Frankly if it did go to pieces the looting would be off the scale anyway.

I have some iodine tablets which were issued by the Irish government some time ago. Happy to flog them to the highest bidder, although they're a few years out of date now.

No worries. The Russian information war is utterly pervasive, as I've posted about on this thread. They have provocateurs and useful idiots throughout Western media. Many influencers listened to by disaffected young men in particular might as well be on the Kremlin payroll.

I'll find a bunker ;-)

Don't know why you are so concerned about contesting everyone's replies.

Anyway, I don't give a shit. there is nothing I can do to prepare. I am not going to hoard cans of food or toilet paper...

Life goes on. I'll worry when it happens.

I don’t think about it really, let alone fantasise about it! What would be the point?

Sweden are closer, Russia is just the other side of Finland.

There is an online movement of utter oddballs preparing for this stuff. I think it gives their paranoia meaning

The Swedes have the national alarm every three months in all the main towns and cities. It goes off at 2pm for a couple of minutes on a Monday as a test. If it goes off any other time then they know it's something serious. They are used to it and generally rather sensible. An updated pamphlet isn't going to panic people.

Back in the early eighties there was a pamphlet put out called "protect and survive" that covered what to do. Basically fill your bath with fresh water, cover with a door you've removed from somewhere in the house, hide under the dining table or under the stairs, preferably with a stash of canned food, a radio and a torch, don't forget your can opener, you have 3 minutes from the warning, good luck! 😁

I'm attempting to discuss real world scenarios. But everyone just keeps saying they want to die in a nuclear attack....

This is their approach, not nuclear war. More likely to get disinformation, interference than nuclear weapons

I read somewhere that if you’re many miles from eg a large city, then keep all your doors and windows locked - radiation fallout is worst in the first 24 hours. If you have a room without windows, stay in there. Take iodine tablets. That’s all I’ve got for you, OP!

ps the people waiting in the sidelines for Putin’s job are even more psychopathic!

I’m actually more scared about trump’s cabinet and their shady histories.