"What if" we all woke up tomorrow at war with Russia

Personally I'd just be really annoyed at the whole thing, and would probably go on a peace march or send my MP a letter or something - I don't want the UK getting involved in a large war, and I don't think Ukraine and Georgia (or really anywhere outside NATO) are worth fighting to protect. I'm not really super bothered about 'countries' as such, and unless Russia started exterminating people in the territory they captured I don't think it would be worth intervening.

I reckon what would happen though is that a big standoff would develop, with neither side actually wanting to start a full scale war. Russia would have to fight against guerrilas in the land they'd captured which would be a strain, and their economic situation would probably just deteriorate, but until it got bad enough that stuff like food ran out (maybe it never would) they wouldn't back down. Cold War Act 2 imo.
 
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GreatAuk said:
Personally I'd just be really annoyed at the whole thing, and would probably go on a peace march or send my MP a letter or something - I don't want the UK getting involved in a large war, and I don't think Ukraine and Georgia (or really anywhere outside Western Europe) are worth fighting to protect. I'm not really super bothered about 'countries' as such, and unless Russia started exterminating people in the territory they captured I don't think it would be worth intervening.

I reckon what would happen though is that a big standoff would develop, with neither side actually wanting to start a full scale war. Russia would have to fight against guerrilas in the land they'd captured which would be a strain, and their economic situation would probably just deteriorate, but until it got bad enough that stuff like food ran out (maybe it never would) they wouldn't back down. Cold War Act 2 imo.
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My concern is that any escalation between the US and Russia would inevitably end in tit for tat nuclear exchanges which neither want and that if stuff did kick off the US might not get (directly) involved - which I believe leaves the UK and France as the only 2 countries with significant deterrent capabilities and our own simply lack the level of redundancy required for that scenario.

In a purely hypothetical situation Russia could incap our forces to a significant enough degree with a mix of nuclear and non-nuclear long range tactical options (for instance a single 4-5 warhead ICBM could render a significant proportion of our military capabilities in the South West ineffective overnight with very little in the way of fallout for anyone else to deal with) and we'd be sitting on the sidelines for the rest of the war with a good chance we'd never even get off a retaliatory strike let alone one that actually made it to target.
 
We've been through decades of the 'Cold War', we've had the Cuban missile crisis. If we were ever going to engage in a nuclear war, we'd have done it by now.

Sleep tight ladies, the apocalypse isn't here yet.
 
Sliver said:
We've been through decades of the 'Cold War', we've had the Cuban missile crisis. If we were ever going to engage in a nuclear war, we'd have done it by now.

Sleep tight ladies, the apocalypse isn't here yet.
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Exactly this. It couldn't happen in the world's current state. It didn't happen even then!
 
Rroff said:
Was wondering who'd be the first to mention conscription - a very real reality for many posters here in that eventuality and probably not something a lot of people have given a thought to.
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If I'm not too old already there's still no chance that I'd go to war for Britain.
 
What exactly would happen though? In a ground war with Russia we would fair worse than Ukraine, in an air war we would be annihilated. Aside from rattling a sceptre the is nothing we can do to them so they probably would just ignore us lol.

We can't nuke them because we don't have enough to cause massive damage and they would nuke us back completely obliterating us.

They can't nuke us because we would nuke them back and they would miss a couple of major cities. Plus the would be no point in nuking us, because if our ships/planes/troops have been sent to the theatre of battle then we have nothing left here anyway.
 
ubersonic said:
What exactly would happen though? In a ground war with Russia we would fair worse than Ukraine, in an air war we would be annihilated. Aside from rattling a sceptre the is nothing we can do to them so they probably would just ignore us lol.
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Really? Fair enough the have more troops than us, but gone are the days where you can just throw sheer numbers at something and grind out a result.

Annihilated in an air war? How did you work that one out?
 
Get out of the country as quickly as possible, Australia maybe.

We would probably be dead in all seriousness as I doubt they would give us much time, War with Russia would be very bad for us.
 
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