Speaking of nuclear weapons, Recent threats from Russia's President
Vladimir Putin, to use nuclear weapons have sent a shudder across
the world, conjuring visions of Armageddon and nuclear fallout echoes
of the Cold War. The Covid pandemic certainly showed the world how
swiftly a society can grind to a halt. Most people managed to survive
that.
But how would they cope with other catastrophes in Sweden With its
bid to join NATO and the war in Ukraine, citizens are being encouraged
to get ready. Just in case a special correspondent Malcolm Rabbit
reports from Sweden. Let's called prepping has gone mainstream.
Sweden is one of the last places you'd expect. Armageddon. It hasn't
been at war for over 200 years, but the state is urging citizens
to prepare for catastrophe. Although Sweden is safer than many other
countries, there are still threats to our security and independence.
Everyone who lives in Sweden shares a collective responsibility for
our country's security and safety.
If you are prepared, you are contributing to improving the ability
of the country as a whole to cope with a major strain.
One of the fundamental differences between the United States and
Sweden is that out of necessity, Americans are much more self reliance.
There is a social contract here and in return for paying some of
the highest taxes in the world. The Swedes and other Scandinavians
expect the state to take care of them from the cradle to the grave.
But the covid pandemic exposed the flaws in that system and undermined
public trust. What's more, the prospect of the war in Ukraine spilling
across borders into other countries.
Has accelerated the need for people here to be more self sufficient
Lovely acts.
I want to survive, and I want my kids to survive. And I will do anything
I can to protect both me and them come.
Linnaeus is preparing for emergencies ranging from a power outage
to doomsday. We have people from Ukraine here in our little village.
It's good to be reminded that you can't take everything for granted
all the time. You have to be prepared.
Things can happen.
In tranquil southern Sweden. Fear of war has increased since the
nation signed up to NATO.
Of course, we should be frightened of Russia. There have a frame
of mind to bring back the old empire.
If disaster strikes a lot of will either say I'm a getting out of
here and head to her cabin on the West Coast or grab her emergency
kit. This is just some of
The good to have and nice to have and some must haves. You have to
have a real good knife. You can just use it for everything protecting
yourself or if you want to make food or have to build a shelter or
whatever. What is that thing? It's a small kitchen. Here's the frying
pan.
It's like a Russian dot Yeah, it is here. You have the to make your
coffee and stuff in here. You put your gas burning here and then
you can just buy. Ah.
Oil coffee. It's basically outdoor stuff. You don't need special
prepping stuff. This is substantial difference between Swedish small
town practitioners and American youtuber, the sensible prepper without
rule of law. If things really kind of go sideways, there's a lot
of people out there. They become desperate. They want food, or they
want to do whatever or they're just nefarious. And they just want
to cause trouble. I just want to highly recommend guys that you stock
up on ammo now.
Here we have freeze dried peppers, 15 years shelf life and then we
have like butter with long shelf life. Apricot jam. Tins of peas
carried rice but no ammo. Not a single round in the booming online
prepping store run by Frederic von Strum. Every time something happens
in the world, like there's a war or the pandemic, or
Terrorists bombing some things like that Sales goes up. We have a
lot of water purification equipment. There are a lot of lakes and
rivers in Sweden. So if you're purified water with some kind of equipment,
it's the water is drinkable. When I started, I believed
The normal customer would be a man living.
In the outskirts little far away from the cities, but it's not like
that have people all over Sweden. A lot of them are living inside
the cities like in in flat. People tend to remember those typical
preppers with guns surviving in the boards, but I am not one of those
crazy preppers. I'm just an ordinary man wanting to make sure that
my family can
Um, live a good life. Martin Stenberg is heading to one of his food
Stashes in the basement of a Stockholm apartment. Block the doubles
as a bomb shelter. What are you preparing for? Well, I don't know
everything. Crisis can be several different things. It can be. War
can be a pandemic, obviously, but it can also be being out of a job.
Or it can be too. I also prepare for inflation.
So this is just a buffer. So if something happens, I actually have
time to adjust my way of life or adjust something do and then consumed
the buffer. But here we have sugar and salt. All these boxes are
filled with
Baking supplies. Dry powdered milk flowers. Well, Are you being hysterical?
No, I'm not hysterical, but it has become a way of life for me to
be prepared in different ways.
But I don't have any guns. Citing her.
Earlier this summer spent, Berg spent 24 hours confined to his apartment
without electricity around. It was an attempt to teach his 16 year
old son, Maximilian, how to survive Without the conveniences of modern
life. It was
Fun, But, yeah, it became boring. After a while. It was kind of difficult
for me because I am kind of addicted to my phone.
And without electricity and like charging it was pretty difficult
to do nothing because I'm not used to that. I wouldn't go so far
to say that they there's an increased level of fear in the public
society. If disaster strikes, the Swedish government will turn to
psychiatrist Philip on Berg for advice on how to handle the country's
collective mental state in all crisis management, even when it comes
to human behavior and in our psychology.
We have to realize that most of the preparations that we can do our
things that we have to do before the crisis Flower
A lot of flour, So I think overall, it is a good idea to increase
awareness among the public. Something to make the water tastes good.
Back in Lauter Delaney Asses house That means having a world stopped
freezing butter. You buy it on sale.
And then you freeze it.
Very good
stuff like that. My own bread and
Put it in here. You have to have like cake as well. If you have to
flee from here, then you can't bring all the stuff you have to take.
What's important.
I'll take my ax. If
The end of the world is coming well.
Take a glass of wine and just relax. You know, we're not gonna make
it anyway.
Ah, The main takeaway is the hope that the day preppers are getting
ready for never comes.