Israel mobilising 30,000 reservists

[Geordie_Rob]

(16 November 2012, 22:20)Tarrel Wrote:

(16 November 2012, 19:09)Paul Wrote: Your rhetoric remains the same wildman.
Answer the question.
How is it going to directly affect the UK in prepping terms?

Or don't you know?

Scenario:

Israel launches ground offensive in Gaza.

Iran sees opportunity and launches proxy attacks on Israel through their mates in Hezbollah.

Israel hits Hezbollah in Lebanon, now fighting a war on two fronts.

Iran responds with missiles into Israel.

Israel hits Iran (non-nuclear, hopefully).

Iran blocks Straits of Hormuz.

Oil price, already climbing, sky-rockets. News reports of impending fuel shortages.

Panic-buying initiated in UK filling stations.

UK filling stations run dry.

After several days, essential services start to suffer as people can't get to work. Police, and subsequently military, deployed at filling stations to preserve supplies for essential personnel.

Etc.

Just one possible scenario, and all sorts of ways for TPTB to head this off at the pass, but you never know. I, for one, am running on a full diesel tank with plenty in reserve, plus a decent supply of unleaded for the quad and chainsaw.

The bottom line, as we saw in the Spring, is that we don't need fuel shortages to create a problem in the UK, just the threat of them.

This is pretty much the scenario I was thinking. Albeit in a bit more detail.