Is it clear WW3 is coming, do I just spend?

[Starrynight999]

so It’s very clear WW3 is coming and tbh I’m a anxious wreck! Part of me wonders do I just max out my credit cards etc and just get stuff and enjoy everythIng with my kids whilst we can before the inevitable happens?

Hardly, when it happens to be true. Religion, oil, land you name it. Man and it is men will always find something to fight over. Hold on, is that sexist to say that? Not bothered one way or the other tbh.
Just happens that there is a lot of wealth tied up in the middle east. Everyone wants their share of the pie in some shape or form.

Scroll on by if you've nothing worthwhile to add? 🤔

Me neither tbh, though I do remember a lot of my friends getting anxious regarding Kuwait, in the early 1990s.

you need to see someone

US, UK, Russia etc involvement doesn't help. 🤔

Because so many people are. It is a disease.

If a nuclear apocalypse is coming then I wouldn't want to live through it. Haven't you watched Fallout? 😉

Seriously OP, if your thread is serious and you really are anxious can I suggest seeking some professional help and stepping away from the news?

I stopped watching the news during Covid and just scan the headlines once a day or catch them on the radio when I'm driving. I consume the minimum possible to know vaguely what is going on without sinking into anxiety. It's been the best thing I've ever done for my mental health.

I am not so sure because there have been a rash of threads by posters who post once and then never come back. Like the woman anxious about going to..... Brussels!

So, you come onto threads that don't interest you, and have nothing to offer the OP? Ok then. 🫣
Alternatively, report it if you feel the need.

What do you think was going to happen, if you had gone to London??

I am an old person. I have been here many many times before and probably will be here again in the future. WW3 is not coming. but please dont be deluded enough to think that there has been peace at any point in the past 100 years because there hasnt. just because we in the uk arent actively at war with another country doesnt mean that all over the world at any given minute someone isnt bombing the shit out of someone else.

If you think this daftness shoukd be stopped report to MN and give your reasoning

Iran doesn't have nukes, and if Israel was ever going to use its own, it would have done so by now. If October 7 didn't prompt it, nothing will.

I do wonder how different the world would be if we didn't depend so much on oil and instead made full use of wind and solar power.

Turn off the news, best cure for anxiety.
Get outside and walk in fresh air, grow some flowers for the bees, get a pet.

I think that a lot of people are unfortunately suffering from anxiety, and being on SM is doing them no good whatsoever. I think that years ago, people just did not speak about it, and suffered in silence, or worse. But yes, no doubt some of the threads on here are started by people, trolls, bot, AI, who knows nowadays!

It’s not just hyperbole

thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/

2025 Doomsday Clock Announcement
January 28, 2025
In setting the Clock one second closer to midnight, the Science and Security Board sends a stark signal: Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice, a move of even a single second should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable warning that every second of delay in reversing course increases the probability of global disaster.

If you’re doing that can you get me a few things please? I’ll pay you back when Armageddon is over.

If you genuinly think war is coming (doubt it is but perhaps some low level temp distruption in some way or another) rather than wasting money you should be focusing on being financially secure to get you through the hard times ahead!?

Looking at it globally I think future historians will see the current period as we're already in WW3. This is horrible and, compounded by the climate crisis, will massively affect lots of people in the middle east and global south. The biggest impact it will have on European civilans is likely to be financial. Oil will go mental, pension pots will be volatile, etc. Having loads of credit card debt will not help you. Having small outgoings and diversified income streams probably will.

If people don’t like what other people are posting on the thread then they’re also welcome to scroll on by.

Don’t like it when people call it out as fake? Scroll by.

But only an idiot would believe that this is anything but fake. This isn’t a thread to discuss anxiety over the potential for ww3, this is a frivolous thread to discuss whether to max out the credit cards because sky news said that WW3 is coming, which has descended into a load of there-there bollocks. There is nothing genuine about that.

And yes, I have reported.

That would be a daft thing to do, that will have repercussions for years. Don’t let the press reporting wind you up, it’s just not worth it.

WW3 has been coming for all my 56 years.