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?

Honestly, we need to make those ‘keep calm and carry on’ posters a thing again.

OP is on other threads, I think a lot of people are just anxious, it particularly seems to be those with young children. Social media and 24 hour news certainly seems to contribute to the anxiety

I think that the only thing that is inevitable is that maxxing out your credit cards is going to make any situation many times worse than it needs to be.

Billionaire Bezos is getting married and seemingly spaffing millions. I don't think he would be doing that if Armageddon is coming. He and his wife would be in the bunker he no doubt has.

How awkward though, when you don't get vapourised and the debt collectors turn up!

I pointed out how unlikely the conscription of older brothers was - they were all frothing about - using historical and contemporty facts and got turned on.

I'm ND and didn't realise a good proportion were enjoying the drama and catastrophizing excersises and rest were really worried but stuck in their worries.

I think MN needs a WW3 board where all these threads could go and the rest of us can then hide it.

wtf no

We are doing the opposite. We have been in a spend era and now is time for saving. However all this uncertainty has huried us along. Interest rates likely to rise again, as will fuel, as will groceries and that’s the good outcome.

I spent a bit more today but on some tinned food, sanitary products and a big bottle of water.

I'm not a prepper just thinking power loss might happen at some stage - but I'll be well prepared with my tin of granny smith slices (I cannot wait to see what these are like) and my 2 jumbo packs of Always.

@Starrynight999 iI wouldn’t do that op but I am interested to see what everyone commenting makes of the situation ?

There have been other world wars we are silly to think “oh not us “ I think the way things are it’s best to be prepared for outages or attacks . Thats all we can do .

I find it useful to consider that I don't need WW3 for my world to end.

The risks we have to run every day from crossing the road to our chances of getting ill/injured could change everything in a heartbeat. If something happened to my kids, I'm not sure I'd care if the sky fell in around me.

But we can't think like that or we can't live or function and what would be the point if you couldn't enjoy a single moment.

While it might seem an anxious way to think, I find it the opposite. It puts things into context.

You'd add a ridiculous amount of stress to your life to do this.

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You must be living in a different reality than I am. There is no inevitability. I'd stop watching the news if I was you, and ignore the media frenzy who's whole goal is to inflate stories from very little information.

None of us know when our time will be up anyway tbh, so stop putting off stuff you want to do, enjoy your life and your kids. But don't max out those credit cards.

What are you talking about? It isn't WW3 you should be worrying about, it's the combination of climate change and overpopulation. Those are the things that are going to de-stabilize the world. The world's population is going to hit 10 billion mid-century, just as climate change is causing havoc.

If I really believed that a nuclear war was imminent I would be spending my money on flights to New Zeland and buying lots of camping equipment and learning how to fish, hunt, forage, filter water and stockpiling a shit load of antibiotics. Not spending my money on a load of useless crap.

I think this too, and have previously stated 'we're already in it' when asked about when WW3 might 'start'.
I've also just heard about the cyber attack on Glasgow City Council.

Perhaps that's because some people are so anxious! I'm trying not to be, but, I can imagine, for some people the current state of affairs in the world is scaring them!

Yes, agreed, though it was boyfriends most of them were worried about, from memory.

I mean this genuinely but have I missed something? It seemed to me, with the wobbly ceasefire between Israel & Iran and with the US not hitting back after the base was bombed, that things were cooling down very slightly.

Her comments are as worthwhile as yours.

Or are we just supposed to agree with the op?

I don't think WW3 is yet inevitable. If something starts there's no certainty the UK will come under sustained attack. If it did it's still less that there'll be a holocaust or an 'On the Beach' type scenario.

Thinking you could max out cards on the life of reilly and escape the consequences is pretty remote.

I honestly don’t know how some people get through life.

Some people didn't live through the Cold War and it really shows.

If I had a £ for every time someone had said "World War 3 is coming" to me I'd be very wealthy. Seriously there have been tens if not 100s of such events in my 50 + years of life from the Falklands to the first and second Gulf Wars to Bosnia to 9/11 etc etc.

I understand that you're anxious but just keep in mind:

• There have been as "world war" scenarios since the end of WW2 as I've had hot dinners, not one of which has ever triggered an actual WW or anything close to it
• World War as a concept is out-dated: it dates back to an era of conventional military might, large armies, global alliances which is behind us. If a "world war" were to be fought today it would involve smart missiles, proxy wars, terrorism and a lot of cyber warfare. We're not going back to a template from the 1940s.
• Despite the fact that the world is run by blow-hard willy wavers who are constantly rattling one another's cages, it's in no one's interest to spark a major global conflagration. Even Trump and Putin recognise this.
• Iran doesn't have the hardware to seriously retaliate against the US and Israel and none of its so-called "allies" (Russia, China, North Korea) are going to throw their lot in with a bunch of suicidal mullahs.

I'm prepared to stick my neck out here and say it's not going to happen. Feel free to sue me if it does. But I'm not losing sleep over it.