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well the war in iran seems inevitable and trump will probably strike after the markets close on friday. so what can i do to best prepare me and family for this? i already have around two weeks of canned food stocked up but besides that i have no other emergency supplies. if there are any protocols or useful handbooks i would appreciate it if you shared them. if you have experience in this type of situation i would be glad to hear from you as well.

that's it i suppose. wish you all the very best.

EDIT: removed the terrible joke because it's sort of a serious post. also thanks for all the answers in advance sorry if i can't reply to all of them

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[–] splendidsadiks@hexbear.net 1 points 17 hours ago

The final point I want to make is that the U.S. loses nothing from performing a large-scale military exercise, scaring a shit out of everyone, pushing Iran to the limit and seeing if they can get concessions, like they have tried with Russia, and utterly failing because the other side recognizes it as an existential battle at this point. They do lose an immense amount by engaging here. It will foreclose on the possibility of aggression against China, although maybe they already believe that's a lost cause. That will be a political struggle within Washington. The nuclear options seems unrealistic in light of that.

But what about the EMP options? Can someone call in another military obsessive? We are nothing alone.