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How Baltic and Nordic countries are preparing for a crisis or war
- nuz 2y ago"The Norwegian information also talks about how to survive for three days without power" I mean canned food etc is useful but you wouldn't even die from starvation if you stood outside for that amount of time.
- mantas 2y agoStanding outside wouldn’t work for a good portion of the year…
- Maxion 2y agoIn most of the Nordics a significant portion of the population would easily die after around 12-24 hours of no power for large parts of the year. It's very goddamned cold up here.
- SoftTalker 2y agoIn the places where people actually live in large numbers it's not quite that severe, but yes it can get cold.
- Maxion 2y agoOld and young children, especially those living in cities or apartments would be in real trouble if heating cut out. They might not own enough thick blankets, and do not have alternative ways of heating their home.
- b112 2y agoGood grief. Blankets?! I don't know anyone that doesn't have a proper winter coat, gloves, boots, hat and so on. Inside, you're away from the biting wind, and the elements. It's literally not problem unless you're very sick.
- mathgeek 2y agoThe pamphlet mentions both warm winter clothing and blankets as good to have ready. There’s no recommendation to have one and not the other.
- b112 2y agoIt's just so weird. Everyone has a blanket on their bed. If not that, a thick comforter type thing. You can actually put on more than one shirt too. If it's super cold, you can put on more than one pair of pants. You can put on more than one pair of socks. If you're strange and your bed doesn't have blankets, you can put clothes over your bed. Most people have 5 to 10 pairs of pants, and a dozen shirts, a few sweaters. Put those on when awake + your winter coat. Put those clothes on the bed when sleeping. Works like a charm.
- mathgeek 2y ago“Most people are prepared” is a great situation. Regardless, we still see folks in vulnerable situations die when the power goes out in extreme heat or cold. The minority that aren’t or can’t be prepared are the ones that need these guides most.
- b112 2y agoHeat is typically a problem, you can only take off so many clothes. Cold typically isn't when at home. That why I have this reaction. You can just put on more and more clothes. There are ways to keep warm. Most deaths from cold are outside, where there are no supplies.
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- ACS_Solver 2y agoIt's cold here in Scandinavia. Nighttime temperatures are below freezing for half a year in a good chunk of the land. Winters are in general cold for a significant part of the population, three days without heating would be a serious danger if you don't know how to keep your home (relatively) warm in an emergency. When outside temperatures are around -15C, a house with no power can easily get cold enough to risk hypothermia. And in the winter, -30C is perfectly ordinary.
- blub 2y agoI struggle to think of a way of keeping an entire house or apartment warm without power. Is there an actual solution recommended by the respective governments for this or was the problem reformulated into keeping one or more persons warm instead?
- askonomm 2y agoI figure we'd all just go to the country side, where people still have houses with chimneys that use wood for heat, and hope we fit.
- LinuxBender 2y agoHome design helps. I'm in a very old earth bermed home and even if the temperature outside is -25F (-31.3C) the coldest it gets if I don't have the heat on is about 42F (5.5C) and that's just because my windows are really old and the door weather strip is decomposing. If I throw a few logs in the wood stove it can get too hot. I doubt there are many earth bermed apartments however. I would probably just put on my snow pants, jacket, hat. Snow rated clothing make a big difference. That is what I would stock up on along with other layers underneath. If I had to sleep outside I would add a tarp, a lot of rocks and some paracord. Not saying it would be fun.
- fn-mote 2y ago> If I had to sleep outside I would add a tarp […] Outside you need to add something to insulate you from heat loss to the ground or it is colder than you would want. Instead of rocks (I’m sure that was a joke), add closed cell insulation, like polystyrene. Five cm of that beneath you, and you will sleep warm and toasty.
- sebtron 2y ago> you wouldn't even die from starvation if you stood outside for that amount of time Right, you would die of hypothermia much earlier
- potato3732842 2y agoThey're not worried about you dying in five days. They're worried about breakdown of law and order.
- mooreds 2y agoHere's the Swedish pamphlet mentioned in the article: https://rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/30874.pdf https://rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/30874.pdf
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- mongol 2y agoWhat we really need to become as prepared as we once was is mandatory conscription. It used to cover almost all men, today I think it covers 7-8 percent of those in the right age. Without having seen the defense from the inside, it must feel foreign and abstract. But it concerns us all and should not be something for a just a few.
- create-username 2y agoIn mandatory conscription armies, soldiers deliberately miss the shots because nobody wants to suffer from remorse
- mathgeek 2y agoWhile I am firmly of the belief that volunteer armies are preferable to conscription, I would wager the number of conscripted folks willing to shoot at someone invading their homeland is high enough for this to not matter.
- asdff 2y agoFor a modern war in europe? Seems to me you need air superiority more than you need warm bodies with three weeks rifle training. And not much more the nordics can do for that considering they are allied with the US already and would allow them to use all ports and air strips. The ukraine situation is a little different specifically because the US doesn’t want to destroy all russian air forces in a day like in desert storm and escalate things further.
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- bpodgursky 2y agoNATO does not have unlimited, or even especially deep, precision munition depth. There is absolutely a need for warm bodies manning anti-tank, artillery, and now FPV drone (10-20km range), positions.
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- vonnik 2y agoThe ongoing Ukraine war is what prevents these countries from being invaded now. Winning that war by destroying Russia’s ability to produce conventional weapons, and exhausting its supply of military age men, will protect these countries and NATO for at least a decade. Which is time Europe needs to prepare.
- Retric 2y agoNATO would already crush Russia in a purely conventional war several times over. However, posturing can be a lot cheaper than conflict.
- mathgeek 2y agoUnfortunately it takes both (all?) sides to keep a war conventional.
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- Ylpertnodi 2y ago>NATO would already crush Russia in a purely conventional war several times over. However, .....no nato country (or alliance therein) wants to deal with the shitshow that would follow, immediately- or longterm, afterwards.
- rayrey 2y agoWith the new Trump admin, it would seem more feasible for Russia to go nuclear early. Unless the UK and France decide to step in, I doubt the the US nuclear umbrella would be in effect after 1/20
- Yeul 2y agoWe know that England and France would have crushed Hitler in 1937. Sadly war is influenced by politics and when people want peace at any price dictators can get away with setting the world on fire.
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- Animats 2y ago"The Norwegian information also talks about how to survive for three days without power" The prepping recommendation for Norway has been increased to a week. That's also true in the US. FEMA says to prep for a week now.[1] Used to be 72 hours. In recent large-scale floods, which are now happening in areas that did not used to have them, areas have been cut off for a week. [1] https://www.ready.gov/kit https://www.ready.gov/kit