Civil war breaks out in your country. What is your survival plan?
Civil war breaks out in your country. What is your survival plan?
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Organize an anarchist underground, probably in unarmed roles as I know nothing about guns. Organize networks of mutual aid and safe houses like the Syrian opposition did in the early stages of their civil war.
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I would guess there to be more left leaning preppers than you might imagine.
At least from what I saw on Reddit, there was a decent representation of left leaning preppers.
I count myself among them… well, not a Reddit user anymore, but my prepping is pretty decent. -
You're in a better position than most.
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Also leaving. If I can't get on a plane or ferry, I'm stealing a boat and setting course for France. I'm under no delusions about my survival skills in any kind of conflict, but I've lived near the sea long enough that I could drive a boat well enough to get to the nearest neighbouring country.
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I'm staying right where I am. I live in a country (non-US, not really wanting to be more specific) where there is a clear geographical divide between the two sides, and I'm deep into the territory of the side I prefer and think would win easily.
Also, I have anarchist friends, and that's who I'd personally be turning to if I needed help or was able to be helpful to others.
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As I've told my partner, if there's instability to the point society is breaking down my plan is to die. That's it. My only plan is to die. Once my hormones run out that's gg for me I'm not going back to the wrong hormones while everything collapses I just plan to die.
Now if there's a path to escape back to civilization I'll see what I can do but if my country (USA) is in (open) civil war it doesn't look good for the rest of the world
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Why not expatriate to Europe?
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That’s way more expensive. And if we’re talking global instability it would be even harder to get there. My best guess is to go to Canada in a more localized instability.
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I am an admitted prepper.
I am very sufficiently protected from a disruption to food supplies.
I am of the mind that bugging in is better than bugging out.
I would probably keep working until things ground to a halt (I can work fully remote) and monitor the state of things as far as sending my kids to school.Honestly though?
I don’t see civil war as a real threat where I am at.
Sure there are flare ups of violent events from time to time, but there is no real concerted effort by either side to bring things to a more constant and real level.
The fact is, life is still much too easy and the problems we face much too far removed from basic necessities that I could really see any one group pushing us into a civil war.
I hope I am right…-
I hope you're right, too.
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We've got plenty of food, water, medical supplies and emergency power. Which means we and a bunch of geographically close friends would either make it through the first months relatively unscathed in our own house, or get killed early in the game for our stuff. If the war came geographically close, we could cross the border to two neighbouring countries within a couple of hours (car) or a day (bike).
I was considering buying a gun, but as the saying goes: a gun without the training means your attacker just got a free gun. Around here there are better ways to protect oneself.
Luckily civil war is highly unlikely around here, and I'm immensely grateful for that. At the moment I'm more worried about a power outage or some other shortage.
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Leaving.
But how, specifically? Airports and train stations might be shut down. Roads could be blocked.
I mean I'm lucky because my state borders Canada. Roads might be blocked but you can literally just walk across the border. Some of the dirt paths crossing it are monitored on camera by the RCMP, but the entire border is just an open clearing so you can literally just walk.
I'm sure if the US broke out into civil war again, Canada would already be taking in refugees anyway.