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.

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    2 hours ago

    As for your canned food question:

    The main factors of spoilage are Microorganisms -> Oxygen -> Light

    If canned properly a can takes care of all of these. If the can is undamaged, chance is your cream chicken is perfectly fine to eat for many more years.

    • Kallioapina@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 minutes ago

      Thanks for the info, both of you. Though it is so delicious that I decided to eat it on the coming weekend on a real meal.