Over the past period of time, almost all of Europe has been demanding that ordinary citizens prepare to deal with war and major crises.


🇪🇪 Estonia



  • Willing to host NATO nuclear weapons if necessary


  • Build shelters, trenches, and anti-tank obstacles along the border with Russia


  • Join the new Baltic defense line


🇱🇻 Latvia



  • Build border defense fortifications, obstacles, and military positions


  • Withdraw from the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines


  • Expand civil defense and national resilience preparations


🇱🇹 Lithuania



  • Build defensive positions in the direction of Russia and Belarus


  • Stockpile anti-tank obstacles and landmine capabilities


  • Exit the treaty banning anti-personnel landmines


🇵🇱 Poland



  • Propose hosting NATO nuclear weapons


  • Expand the armed forces and the reserve system


  • Plan to train large numbers of reservists every year


  • Consider expanding military readiness for adult men


  • Advance the “Eastern Shield”


  • Build defensive fortifications, surveillance systems, anti-drone capabilities, and potential minefields


  • Exit the treaty banning anti-personnel landmines


🇫🇮 Finland



  • Raise the age of military reservists to 65


  • Build a reserve force of nearly one million people


  • Remove legal barriers that prevent NATO nuclear weapons from entering Finnish territory


  • Exit the treaty banning anti-personnel landmines


🇸🇪 Sweden



  • Issue citizens with a “crisis or war response manual”


  • Guide families on how to cope with power outages, air raids, communication failures, and possible occupation


🇩🇪 Germany



  • Inventory potential shelter spaces such as subway stations, tunnels, garages, and basements


  • Seek to establish around a million-person capacity for shelters


  • Register and assess young men to prepare for possible conscription


  • Prepare to move large-scale NATO forces and vehicles eastward during major conflicts


🇩🇰 Denmark



  • Expand military conscription to women


  • Extend the period of compulsory military service from 4 months to 11 months


🇬🇧 United Kingdom



  • Reinstate the government “war manual”


  • Integrate military, civilian, industrial, and public utility planning


  • Prepare nationwide defense exercises


  • Strengthen the protection of energy, water resources, communications, and undersea cables


  • Plan responses to cyberattacks, fuel shortages, and supply chain disruptions


  • Simplify the process for retired veterans to be recalled for service


  • Increase weapons, drone, and ammunition production


🇫🇷 France



  • Develop public survival guidelines


  • Cover emergency supplies, radio communications, and radiation protection


  • Encourage participation in military reserves and civil defense organizations


🇪🇺 European Union



  • Recommend that 450 million residents stockpile at least 72 hours of food, water, medicine, cash, and emergency supplies


  • Establish strategic stockpiles for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear emergencies


Across Europe, it is re-entering a very specific kind of state.


War preparedness, which has already begun expanding from the armed forces into society as a whole.