A page from the English language version of the Swedish government pamphlet on how to prepare for war
Jon Henley, Miranda Bryant and Kate Connolly – The Guardian Nov 29, 2024
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.
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”.
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.
Reaction among Swedish residents has been mixed. Johnny Chamoun, 36, a hairdresser in Solna, near Stockholm, said it was “good to be prepared”. But, he said, while the brochure was a good idea, it had not been much of a talking point.
“In the salon I’ve not heard many people talk about it. Just one said they had got it,” he said. “They’re not stressing or anything.” But Muna Ayan, a healthcare worker from Stockholm, was concerned by how unconcerned many Swedes were.
Having experienced conflict firsthand in Somalia, Ayan said she was frightened. “I am scared because I know what war means – I have survived war,” she said, adding that she had stocked up on water, battery lights, candles and Vaseline.
She was also trying to work out how to tell her five children without scaring them. For people from Somalia, Syria or Iraq, talk of conflict in Sweden was traumatic, she said.
“We who have been in war, we are not well. We are very worried, because if there is war we know what will happen. In war we have lost relatives, some children will disappear.”
And Fatuma Mohamed, a health communicator in Stockholm, said many families in poorer areas did not have food for everyday life, let alone for stockpiling, while others were trying to find out where their local shelters were.
She said she would like to see more information provided to people in person, rather than just in a brochure.
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.
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.
The site has tips on strengthening psychological resilience “to increase your ability to cope in difficult circumstances”, improving personal cybersecurity and sheltering indoors (“Seal doors and windows. Turn on the radio. Wait calmly for instructions.”)
Suvi Aksela of the women’s national emergency preparedness association (Nasta), who is on the 72hours expert committee, said it had considered raising Finland’s food storage recommendation to a full week of supplies, as Sweden and Norway had done.
But in the end, the committee decided against it because the 72hours messaging was so well-established in Finland, she said. “The 72 hours has become a brand here in Finland, so we didn’t want to break that. But that is just the minimum.”
Russia’s war on Ukraine had been a “wake-up call” even in a country that had long been prepared, she said: women had signed up for preparedness courses, battery radios had flown off the shelves, and questions like “how much water do you have at home?” or “do you have a camp stove?” had become “more mainstream”.
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.
Experts predict an attack by Russia may be a possibility within the next five years and the search is now on for any structure that could be used if such an event occurred, including metro stations and basements of public offices, schools and town halls.
German households have been urged to adapt their own cellars, garages or store rooms, or excavate old bunkers, while housebuilders will be legally obliged to include safe shelters in new homes – as Poland has already done.
The Frankfurter Allgemeiner newspaper this month revealed details of a 1,000-page army document aimed at German businesses – advising them, for example, to train extra lorry drivers – but containing civil preparedness recommendations for individuals.
@Rixon
It just occured to me that I haven’t see Carl Jones around here lately..
I’d hate to think that – in spite of the caterwauling chorus he, for some reason, usually inspires – he’s actually been banished from TTS.. to forage in less hospitable environs..
in which case, that well known admonition/lament will have to be updated to start:
“First they came for CJ… and I was not gay….”
what this should read is ” jewish bankers prepare germany for war”
The Guardian shows its concerns for Africans in Scandinavia, not the people whose country it is
ALL the turds – U$$A, ZOGUK, EUSSR… ZATO – are now circling the bowl…
The ONLY question is:
“Which of these ‘steamers’ – assuming it’s not ‘All of the above… All at once!’ – gets flushed first?” 🤔
Please proceed to the tables and – presuming you “Feel Lucky” – place your bets! 😉
It is all part of theatrics to usher in the UN Agendas, even if the US-led West is stupid enough to give us a cosmic hologram show over the next month, or to stage a fake alien invasion.
People have to wake up. Everything we said right from the beginning regarding Covid has turned out to be absolutely true. Covid was the biggest organized psyop of the globalist power elites to date. All of our government authorities were either coopted or appointed for the occasion. They all consented to the US bioweapon virus to be released on us as the pretext to shut everything down and jab as many people as they could with their toxic shit. The same globalist administrations right on the heels of those massive crimes escalated the war in the Donbas which they created and fueled into the nonsense, slaughter, and scare mongering we have going on right now.
It is the same people behind both ops and unless they are identified and brought to account then we will be nothing but salves in totalitarian systems everywhere – ala Bill Gates. To find out who is who at the top perhaps we should start by waterboarding Mr. Gates, as well as Larry Fink and the entire BlackRock board of directors.
We should not care if the top-down order running things, the “Round Table”, or whatever it is, is made up of the best and brightest of the most influential organizations on the planet, as David Icke says, or how far back in history their family pedigrees go, they are nothing but a bunch of jerk-off bastards and arch criminals, and everyone on them has to be totally exposed and made accountable.
72 hours hahaha that’s enough time for your fearless leaders to empty their houses of valuables fuel up the jet and file a flight plan for the Caribbean,they can then organise your life from the beach hahaha
Yeh, like Russia is so concerned with Finland and Sweden, that they will waste time, effort and missiles to crap on those countries. It’s like the 50’s again when fear porn was everywhere, scaring us little children for a lifetime of horror. It’s also called looting the treasury. The much feared Swedish army is still wiping off the stains on their underwear from their own internal immigrant issues. Russia could blast anyone they want , but they wont, because they are in on the same con game with fakery .
Europeans need to disband Zionist Warmongering NATO and join BRICS to look forward to ending wars and be peaceful and prosperous.
After liquidating millions of whites in Ukraine, apparently ZWOG is next setting its sights on the rest of Europe. Don’t you know? Chandala Lubavitch & ZWOG doesn’t like all these white Germanic people still existing on the planet. Mongrel moshiach can’t appear until white man disappears. Must arrange operation with their anti-white Zionist-Commie stooges (Trump/Putin/Zelensky/Starmer etc) & commence/stage Waste Whitey III, to put the kibosh on the white man & make the planet safe for Jews & wogs. Now you know.
Whoever wants war is a moran. The worst day in peacetime is better than the best day in wartime.
Shortages of everything.
Hyperinflation.
Roadblocks.
Curfews.
Military draft, dead bodies, best friends 6 feet under.
In the war zone – starvation.
It is time to kill the leaders of the western world – they are all Wrathchild hacks.
derek
BRICS is a Commie wog operation too
peter still can’t figure out Russia is ruled by Commie Yids too
the answer – DO NOT FIGHT SOMEONE ELSE’S WAR.
“Germany and the Nordic countries prepare citizens for possible war” …. What the masses of dangerously stupid and hopelessly gullible fail to grasp is that they have already been under siege and invasion for years as their federal cartels, under the direction of Jewry, have been waging a relentless war on the rightful citizens and native populations. Between the convid-1984 massive terrorism operation, allowing hordes of less-than-worthless third world scum to pour into their cuntries, rigged elections, relentless Orwellian propaganda, poisoning via multiple vectors, not to mention the de facto debt slavery everyone has been plunged into thanks to the wildly illogical, unless you’re on the receiving end, rigged “central bank” shakedown. F*ck the Russians; your own “leaders” have been kicking your teeth in and raping and robbing you relentlessly.
Muna Ayan, a worthless stone-age simian from shit-hole Somalia, oh wait, the piece calls her a “healthcare worker from Stockholm”…the writer of this schlock deserves to have his hands chopped off and stuffed up his own ass…Anyhoo, the nigger invader “was also trying to work out how to tell her five children” Oh good, the retard bred a half-dozen mini street simians that will soon be 6 bigger street simians…I know the piece said “five”, but she has probably already been impregnated again by a 6th baby-daddy, surely another Orc invader no less as no Nordic man worth his salt would plow some low-bred Somali monkey.
Anyway, Ayan said “that she had stocked up on water, battery lights, candles and Vaseline.” … I must apologize as Ayan is much smarter than I have given her credit for since she is already much better prepared than the majority of imbeciles. And the Vaseline is a brilliant touch as it will surely come in very handy as she can lube up before the next time the federal cartel and organized Jewry plow everyone vigorously and violently in the ass…and I shouldn’t say “next time” since it never actually stops….
Seventy two hours survival? You’re going to need seventy two months of supplies to survive what’s coming. The myth is that after the missiles arrive then in 72 hours the shops will be open again, the power back on and the petrol stations fully functioning. The realty is that we are all going to be in severe trouble. The Blitz of WW2 will be like a vicar’s tea party in comparison. It is likely that armed gangs will be going from house to house collecting what little food is left and you will have no choice about whether you give it up to them. The Deagle forecast is looking increasingly accurate. The Assisted Dying legislation is hardly going to be required. And I’m afraid that Jesus is not going to save us.
Petherington–Carl Jones has posted once, saying he wasn’t
NONSENSE !
NO BUNKERS PROTECT YOU WITH THIS
MODERN WEAPONS !
you just dont freeze anymore .
take as model the peaceful sleeping palestinian
women + children in their tents , have no pains anymore .
‘Mongrel moshiach can’t appear until white man disappears.’
Good one nico
notice the jones boys stick together
@TheyRLying. We don’t have to waterboard them.Just inject them with their own sludge. Not only are they going to spill the beans but also give us the antidote to that shit they have produced. Afterwrds we could drag them through the streets by their ankles, knock out their teeth by the talmud and hang them.
And don’t worry, the feral clubbermen, er I mean federal governments, have had a plan to save many of you when the bombs and missiles, never mind that they’ll probably have the insignias of your “own” cuntries on the munitions, blow some of your cities and towns to smithereens, they have conveniently already built “emergency management” camps in many areas to herd, er I mean help, you into. You won’t be allowed to leave, for your own safety, of course.
As for the urban bomb shelters, does the term “mass grave” mean anything to you? Because that’s what they’ll be this time.
I mean, we’re talking about federal cartel jackals who have pissed in your faces and raped your kids six ways from Sunday, and laughed about it the whole time. But I’m sure that they’ll have your best interests at heart this time.
“Tommy Green”–paranoid and cannot interpret my words