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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: ergophobe on December 17, 2025, 09:45:00 PM

Title: Could the UK last more than a few weeks at war?
Post by: ergophobe on December 17, 2025, 09:45:00 PM
A more interesting article than the title might indicate

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yq5zdv907o
Title: Re: Could the UK last more than a few weeks at war?
Post by: rcjordan on December 17, 2025, 09:53:05 PM
If the headline ends with a question mark, the answer is 'No'.
Title: Re: Could the UK last more than a few weeks at war?
Post by: ergophobe on December 17, 2025, 10:07:18 PM
The answer is no, but it's still an interesting read.

 - like internet and financial system will likely go down in the first minutes of a war. Can the population hold out without those things? Do you have cash? Would a cashier at the grocery store even be able to accept it?

 - Does the UK need to reconsider national service and why is this harder for the UK (and US) than Germany, France, Sweden?

 - The UK plans for war currently assume essentially no casualties. Or at least, there is no plan for casualties

Anyway. A lot to it beyond the yes/no
Title: Re: Could the UK last more than a few weeks at war?
Post by: Rupert on December 18, 2025, 07:41:08 AM
In Ireland when the banks went down, people wrote cheques.

There is always a solution to trade.

We coped in covid all of us, we could cope with war again.

Not saying it would be nice. No network would mean no Facebook lies, the govt would have more control of the narrative.

Not necessarily a good thing, but....
Title: Re: Could the UK last more than a few weeks at war?
Post by: ukgimp on December 18, 2025, 11:06:38 PM
If there was a genuine war, we'd be fucked.

When I saw people in India, they had fuck all, but they would survive. Barter. Trade. Getting on with it.

U.K. folk = fucked.