Could the UK last more than a few weeks at war?

[ergophobe]

A more interesting article than the title might indicate

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yq5zdv907o

[rcjordan]

If the headline ends with a question mark, the answer is 'No'.

[ergophobe]

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

[Rupert]

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....

[ukgimp]

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.