Should We Prepare for a Nuclear Conflict?

Paco Dennis said:
Solution: All nations accept and negotiate a cease fire, and let Russia have the annexed territory. Maintain the peace between the Ukrainians and the newly annexed territory. Teach the people how to live in peace and forgive and forget the past madness. Supply food and energy to all peoples in that region. Stop the war immediately before it becomes a tragedy of monstrous proportions.
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War is a money making machine which is why it will be difficult to stop. But I'm all for promoting peace in any way shape or form. Sooner or later people will become outraged by the cost of this "war" which is causing energy prices to skyrocket at a time when our economies are least able to cope with that. Something HAS to give here, and it will.
 
Should We Prepare for a Nuclear Conflict?
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You should always have some disaster preparedness in place, to make the short term future more pleasant. But not matter how much you become a prepper you can't guarantee survival. If you have a little farm in some remote location, go to it now.
We should all prepare ourselves to meet our maker, now is a good time as any...

DGM said:
Hiding under desks in the fifties? This says it all. BE AWARE: ADULT language! Do NOT watch if you'll "be offended".
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Adult language? Lewis Black? Naw!
 

Paco Dennis said:
Solution: All nations accept and negotiate a cease fire, and let Russia have the annexed territory. Maintain the peace between the Ukrainians and the newly annexed territory. Teach the people how to live in peace and forgive and forget the past madness. Supply food and energy to all peoples in that region. Stop the war immediately before it becomes a tragedy of monstrous proportions.
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Appeasing dictators and madmen is not a solution to anything. Killing them is.
 
Paco Dennis said:
Solution: All nations accept and negotiate a cease fire, and let Russia have the annexed territory. Maintain the peace between the Ukrainians and the newly annexed territory. Teach the people how to live in peace and forgive and forget the past madness. Supply food and energy to all peoples in that region. Stop the war immediately before it becomes a tragedy of monstrous proportions.
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That'd work if borders were meaningless, and normal average people didn't equate them with words like "home" and "belonging" and "community".

Solution 1: All Russian military personnel go home to a big heroes welcome, Russia stays Russia, Ukraine stays Ukraine (all of it), and the two countries become loving, helpful neighbors. Oh, and Putin has a fatal heart attack but it's ok (if anyone cares) because he dies in his sleep. 🌸
 
Remember this! If the nuclear bomb is coming; its coming to a monster city near you. No one is going to send a big expensive bomb to some little town in Saskatchewan or Montana with a few hundred folks. Nope! The bombers want to get the maximum "bang for their bucks." Therefore, cities like London, Paris, Rome, Chicago, New York and that "City of Angels" LA are gonna get it. Thems the facts pilgrims! Everyone wants a bargain.
 
Murrmurr said:
That'd work if borders were meaningless, and normal average people didn't equate them with words like "home" and "belonging" and "community".

Solution 1: All Russian military personnel go home to a big heroes welcome, Russia stays Russia, Ukraine stays Ukraine (all of it), and the two countries become loving, helpful neighbors. Oh, and Putin has a fatal heart attack but it's ok (if anyone cares) because he dies in his sleep. 🌸
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Can you conceive of Putin turning tail and going home?
 
fuzzybuddy said:
All preparation does is postpone the inevitable. In an all-out thermonuclear war, there is no plan B. Even if you survive the initial blasts, what happens when your supply of Snickers is gone? Exactly how are you going to live off the radioactive land?
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You're right, Fuzz, there is no Plan B, what's the point? I'm goin' with Plan A. I won't have to worry about living off the radioactive land, I'll be in an alcohol induced coma. You're welcome to join me. 🥃🥃
 
Packerjohn said:
Remember this! If the nuclear bomb is coming; its coming to a monster city near you. No one is going to send a big expensive bomb to some little town in Saskatchewan or Montana with a few hundred folks. Nope! The bombers want to get the maximum "bang for their bucks." Therefore, cities like London, Paris, Rome, Chicago, New York and that "City of Angels" LA are gonna get it. Thems the facts pilgrims! Everyone wants a bargain.
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It simply doesn't matter where on Earth the nuclear bombs actually hit. If you live in a remote area and don't get killed by the initial blast, you'll wish that you had been soon enough!
 
Murrmurr said:
Of course I know that. Not sure they all work, but yes I'm pretty sure they have plenty of 'em.

Here's one for you: Did you know Kool-Aid is a dangerous substance...and spelled with a K ?
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Nice of you to notice. Spelling never was my strength, but I still made it through Graduate School...how about you?
Oh, you need a comma, after your comment "Of course"...
 
Packerjohn said:
Remember this! If the nuclear bomb is coming; its coming to a monster city near you. No one is going to send a big expensive bomb to some little town in Saskatchewan or Montana with a few hundred folks. Nope! The bombers want to get the maximum "bang for their bucks." Therefore, cities like London, Paris, Rome, Chicago, New York and that "City of Angels" LA are gonna get it. Thems the facts pilgrims! Everyone wants a bargain.
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They'll hit significant military and supply targets fist, and then crucial infrastructure like dams and such. People aren't the target, right?

I live within 25 minutes of 2 active air/navy military bases and a major inland port, and I'm 5 minutes from an international airport and about 30 minutes away from the dam that regulates the water that goes to all of them.

Sitting ducks, I suppose.
 
The pandemic was the palest of warmups for the unthinkable horrors nuclear bombs would present to survivors of the blasts.

Communications, manufacturing, electricity, and most transportation (modern cars included) would cease operating even outside of the immediate target zones because nukes create EMPs (electromagnetic pulses) that interfere with electronics. Water would stop flowing from our taps, power would go out, sewage would back up, and chaos, panic and lawlessness would reign supreme.

Survivors would be thrown back into the 1800s, though very few belong to a community with the skillsets people had back then. Even the Amish would have to deal with a lack of clean water, arable soil and local raiders. The only way to know what was happening outside one's own front door would be to go outside.

Most with hovels or small bunkers would die of exposure, thirst, starvation, illness, minor infections, murder or suicide long before the worst of the radiation dissipated. Humans require fresh air, clean water, food and sunshine to survive.

Nuclear war would be the endgame for our species and many others, or damn close to it. TBH, I'd rather go in the first wave than suffer through the horror that would come after it.
 
Pappy said:
No, but how does one prepare? If your anywhere near a nuclear explosion, better make peace with whatever you believe in. You can always hid under your desk. Our school thought that was the best way.
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Yes, those highly-useful drills in 2nd grade. Crouching under our desks. And don't forget to put our hands over our heads for protection......
during vaporization. 😂
 
Surprised some members are still posting like Russia is suddenly considering using nuclear weapons. All that noise is from dominant Western media under control of our war mongering militaristic neoconservatives like Nuland after the annexing began that pi$$ed them off. The same neocon media that has changed its tune from originally just defending Ukraine to punishing Russia until regime change occurs, their original actual agenda. It is true that some in Russian media have been talking to their public audiences for months on how their nuclear arsenal is a strong deterrent.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-1.6605262
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The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it did not want to take part in "nuclear rhetoric" spread by the West after a media report that Russia was preparing to demonstrate its willingness to use nuclear weapons with a test on Ukraine's border. The Times newspaper reported on Monday that the NATO military alliance had warned members that Putin was set to demonstrate his willingness to use nuclear weapons and that Russia had moved a train thought to be linked to a unit of the defense ministry that was responsible for nuclear munitions. When asked about the Times report, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: "The Western media, Western politicians and heads of state are engaging in a lot of exercises in nuclear rhetoric right now. We do not want to take part in this."
 
I remember tidbits like this.

To keep people from looking at blast and going blind to remind to face away just remember 'butt to the blast' but in reality at that point it's kiss your butt good bye.
 

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