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?

Well it’s better to die with your family than in a bunker. What kind of loon starts thinking “what about work” at that point?

If you look at his son, Hunter and links to Ukraine, it’s personal. This isn’t a coup.

@EvangelicalAboutButteredToast

If I were you I'd stop reading the Daily Mail and those newspapers who like to make a drama out of things to have a bash at the government.

The reality is somewhat different. Mark Urban who is a credible defence journalist (Newsnight, The Sunday Times) has explained that these are not long range missiles, they are 200 miles max and the USA is only providing coordinates to allow the Ukrainians to shoot them at North Korean troops in Russia. While disagreeably self-interested of Biden, it's not the thing that will start off WW3.

What's more important is that Russia is not allowed to brandish its nuclear weapsons to kowtow USA and Europe into acceding to its demands. If that happens, more countries will try to acquire nuclear weapons in the future, putting us in more danger.

The Swedish 'If a crisis or war comes' is just the emergency info which used to be in the front of every phone book. We're only getting it in booklet form as there is no longer a phone book.

We have a government department whose job it is to prepare everyone for any eventuality by keeping the population informed. It's useful information but not something to panic over. You panic when they start clearing the spiders out of the bomb shelters, which isn't happening.

You can read the advice in English if you're interested.
https://www.msb.se/en/advice-for-individuals/the-brochure-in-case-of-crisis-or-war/

So you are saying a man with dementia and obvious cognitive decline IS in charge of decision making in America?

As a slight tangent, and on the subject of films being made, does anyone else remember the Ready Brek spoof from Not the Nine o'Clock News?

Me too.

But there are many other possibilities other than a nuclear attack, which I would try to survive.

I can’t think we can be in worse hands than with this government.

I live near an American airbase. The number of planes overhead is much lower than usual so I wouldn't worry about it.

Putin is not really in control of Russia, the mafia is. Russia is a mafia state run on behalf of organised crime, which is why Putin gets to sabre-rattle and murder the odd dissenting rebel, but he can't do anything to threaten the financial gain of the people that actually make the money in Russia

I tried to explain this to a rather naive pal who's always maintained the money Abramovitch has made "proves" the success of the place, @WooleyMunky

Unfortunately the real explanation - that he's a gangster who was well placed to grab the spoils when communism collapsed - went right over her head

The so-called British government should have never gotten involved. Very angry about the whole thing. I wonder if the idiotic 'I support the current thing' crowd still have their Ukraine flags up?

That made me laugh. But are we sure the balaclava's youths won't crumble at the sight of a Russian soldier.

Surely saying he is nowhere near the button doesn't mean someone else is making the final decision, just that he is nowhere near making a decision to push the button. I am nowhere near buying a house, but that doesn't mean someone else will make that decision for me or that I am incapable of making it. It simply means that I'm happy where I am and have no intention of moving.

Step away from tiktok

The 25th Amendment allows for this.

Please stop spouting the Trump branded bullshit. It's not big, it's not clever, and this isn't the audience for it. If you want to spend some time looking at the people around a president, have a look at the muppets Trump is lining up for his administration.

What's tiktok got to do with it? This is regular news.

Yes, we do have our flags up because we absolutely support the Ukrainian people, not just those we have welcomed into our communities, but those who are fighting our common enemy at home.

And your spelling gives you away as not being British - how's the weather in Moscow today?

I’m not on TikTok. This is being discussed all over the place as it is current news! It’s in papers, online, on the radio. I think the issue is all lot of people won’t read the news so then get cross when other people do and want to discuss it

Like much of NATO they're not spending most of it - America is - so they'd better hope Trump's willing to go on picking up the bills

And since most are agreed they wouldn't want to survive this holocaust I guess those not right next to one had better pick a nuclear installation and move into a camp next to it ... you know, like Greenham Common only bigger

But you can on Amazon.

Can you list these contingencies or provide a link please?

Russia is not going to attack the UK. Not if they value Moscow and St. Petersburg, anyway - because they would be targeted by nuclear weapons. We do have them, you know? They float round in submarines. And they don't do it for nothing. Mind, if Starmer is into disarmament then we're in trouble!

We've already experienced this. Russia wouldn't waste a nuke on us, they'd wind up all our home grown racists who'd wreck the UK for them.

Cheap, easy and they can claim "It wasn't me guv".

Britain spends c.2% of GDP on defence - which is more than any of our NATO allies apart from the US.

No, they'd cut off Europe's oil again, so Norway would be in the position of having to supply the continent rather than us.
Russia is a third rate power pretending to be the USSR still (and that wasn't all it was hyped up to be).