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Lisa Bolin 🌸's avatar

I live in Finland and we received our Prepared People Cope Better guide last week. I also happen to live on strategic islands that have been mentioned far too many times in the Russian media for comfort. Sharing a long land border with Russia means they’re incredibly prepared. All big buildings with many people have bomb shelters, including my apartment building built in 1970. There is air raid and emergency siren testing on the first of every month at 12pm. I’ll be following the advice in the document because preparing is important, even if it’s to ease my anxiety a little.

Thanks for writing about this.

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Gregory Garretson's avatar

Sarah, I totally understand your perspective. And yes, I think about the war a lot. Do I actually believe that all of Europe will be engulfed by it? No. But that doesn't mean that awful things are not going to happen.

But in terms of violence, I would still rather live over here (I live in Portugal) than in the US. I may be alone in this, but I can envision scenarios in which there is another civil war in the US. So that really doesn't feel safer than Europe, which, to me, still feels like the sanest corner of the planet, despite all of the horrible right-wing populist parties that are on the rise now.

Am I inclined to be worried? Sure. But do I allow myself to worry? As little as possible, because at the end of the day, you have to get on with your life, don't you? Hang in there, and keep those tablets handy!

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