Apps and booklets are offering advice on how to build a bunker, stockpile food and live without electricity in case the worst happens

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 kriegsfähig: 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.

  • gigachad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    13 days ago

    Because the German federal administration thinks they can simultaneously address the issue of missing digitalization with an app

    • fairchild@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      Too true. In case of war, this is pretty much counter-intuitive.

      Next they implement a paid version, where the more privileged people will get notified of the even better shelters.

      If there’s one thing I want in my life it’s fewer Apps.