Sweden has revived a wartime-era pamphlet and made it fit for the digital age to prepare its citizens for future crises. https://t.co/GdPkqQMXfs pic.twitter.com/bC58seqmw1
— Euronews Next (@euronewsnext) November 29, 2024
Previously:
Apparently, doing a world war is a really popular idea in Europe.
At least, that is what I can observe. There are a lot of people who publicly support this war, and no one is protesting against it.
Of course, protesting against it is illegal, so maybe there are more people against it than it appears.
Germany is developing an app to help people locate the nearest bunker in the event of attack. Sweden is distributing a 32-page pamphlet titled If Crisis or War Comes. Half a million Finns have already downloaded an emergency preparedness guide.If the prospect of a broader conflict in Europe seems remote for many, some countries at least are taking it seriously – and, in the term used by Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, taking steps to get populations kriegstüchtig: war-capable.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has dramatically raised security tensions across the Baltic region, prompting Finland and Sweden to abandon decades of nonalignment and join Nato. Military capability, however, is not all: citizens have to be braced too.
“We live in uncertain times. Armed conflicts are currently being waged in our corner of the world. Terrorism, cyber-attacks, and disinformation campaigns are being used to undermine and influence us,” the Swedish pamphlet’s prologue says.
You see how they always slip in “disinformation” as being the same thing as terrorism and war?
Also available in English, it adds that collective resilience is essential and if Sweden is attacked, “everyone must do their part to defend Sweden’s independence – and our democracy … you are part of Sweden’s overall emergency preparedness”.
A brave Swedish warrior, ready to fight like the shield maidens of yore.
Swedes have long been familiar with such public information pamphlets: the first was issued in the second world war. The latest advises on, among other topics, warning systems, air raid shelters, digital security and how to use the toilet if there is no water.It also recommends keeping a good supply of water at home (and checking annually to see if it is still safe); having plenty of blankets, warm clothes and alternative heating; getting a battery-powered radio; and storing plenty of energy-rich, quick-to-prepare food.
A page from the English language version of the Swedish government pamphlet.
Norway’s directorate for civil protection, DSB, has distributed a similar booklet to the country’s 2.6 million households. “We live in an increasingly turbulent world,” it says, affected by climate change, digital threats and “in the worst case, acts of war”.The Norwegian pamphlet advises people, for example, to hold at least a week’s worth of non-perishable food including “crispbreads, canned pulses and beans, canned sandwich spreads, energy bars, dried fruit, chocolate, honey, biscuits and nuts”.
Norway also advises residents to stock up on essential medicines – including iodine tablets, in case of a nuclear incident – and, like Sweden, recommends that people have several bank cards and keep a ready supply of cash at home.
Norway advertises its army like it’s all women.
In Finland, an exhaustive online guide called Preparing for incidents and crises offers residents information and advice on anything from water outages to wildfires, the collapse of the internet or “longer-term crises … such as military conflict”.More practically, on a separate website, 72tuntia.fi, Finland – which shares an 830-mile (1,340km) border with Russia – asks its citizens bluntly: “Would you survive 72 hours?” in a range of crisis situations, inviting them to put both their skills and their supplies through a series of tests.
Germany’s focus, meanwhile, is on ramping up the number of its bunkers and protective shelters after an official estimate that the nation of 84 million has fewer than 600 public shelters, together capable of holding just 480,000 people.Many cold war shelters have been dismantled owing to the belief they would no longer be needed, but Berlin has now launched a national bunker plan under the Federal Office for Population Protection, including a geolocation phone app.
During the Cold War, this war propaganda was all about fear of Russian communism.
What is the underlying message now?
Fear of Russian Christianity? Heterosexuality? What is the message as to why this war is going to happen?
Are the masses of people not against war in general?
How many NATO politicians will die in the fighting if they succeed in starting their War with Russia?
Now, How many of you, and your kids will die in the fighting if they succeed in starting their War with Russia?
Remember that when they tell you its Russia you should fear pic.twitter.com/lPpYN9HGTU
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) November 29, 2024
Here’s my advice: if the Russians invade you, defect to the Russian side immediately. Do not “fight for your country,” because you would not be fighting for “your country,” you would be fighting for immigrants and “gay sex.”
Russia did not start this war, Russia has no desire to invade Scandinavia or Germany, and if Russia does end up invading, it’s not because they are trying to force anything on you, it’s because they don’t have any choice.
Your own government is who is forcing things on you. The governments of Europe have forced women, gays, and immigrants on you, against your will. The people in the government, and in particular in the American government, are the enemies of Western people – not the Russians.
