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spoilerfirst country I thought of was Argentina.

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[–] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Depends on a lot of factors related to the environment, i.e. pollution types, viability of water treatment, food sources and what their growth is reliant on, equipment and what their maintenance is reliant on (i.e. parts/consumables ideally not reliant on regions in heavy conflict).

I've never been in a war zone but I have been in one of the country's worst natural disasters (along with several smaller ones) and what I learned from those experiences is not to trust anyone who refuses to understand the importance of fluid decision-making in complex life or death scenarios, instead rigidly adhering to a fixed plan they had developed long before the emergency situation happened. It ends up slowing them down far more than anything and creates loads of avoidable problems in the name of consistency.

That's not to say one shouldn't have a plan but if it relies on taking route A to escape and route A is on fire, the people who blindly say "STICK TO THE PLAN" without recognizing that the plan requires adaptation, they're not to be trusted because they possess a theoretical understanding of the situation, not a practical understanding.

Far too often people who confidently think their plan A will work, end up dying because they foolishly downplayed the need for adapting/abandoning their plan in the face of impending doom. Wildfires in particular have resulted in entire families burning to death-- wealthy families who were convinced their various expensive, extensive precautionary methods were foolproof but learned the hard way that mother nature can very quickly make a mockery of the measures humans take.

[–] iagomago@feddit.it 6 points 2 years ago

New Zealand or Switzerland

[–] marmulak@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My bet is on Tajikistan. Safest place is holed up in the mountains in a country nobody's heard about, or if they heard about it they don't care. Friendly relations with all its neighbors, and no economy or anything worth attacking or invading for.

[–] tracyspcy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

nice country, but close to China, border conflicts with neighbors and water shortage.

[–] bleepingblorp@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago

In the event of global warfare I doubt those border disputes will matter to anyone and China likely won't worry about them either, since they'll likely be busy killing Capitalists.

[–] marmulak@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

China is a concern but I doubt they'll ever destroy the place. As for water, we've got an infinite supply

[–] wintermute@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

Antarctica XD

[–] yeolsongarak@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Argentina is a good first option, I think Chile would be even better. Not only a global conflict, but a massive global catastrophe.

[–] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't Argentina full of nazis?

[–] marmulak@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Those guys knew how to escape conflict

[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The ISS Or Switzerland idk

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

lmao the ISS is literally the least self-sufficient place anywhere in the universe where humans currently live

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Surprised nobody mentioned Iceland yet.

[–] tracyspcy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is Iceland self-sufficient in terms of food? When I was there, I saw few greenhouses and cold desert around :)

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Looks like they were 50-60% self sufficient circa 2018.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Global warming is gonna help with that

[–] Dragon@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have been seriously thinking of attempting to transplanting to Switzerland for this reason

[–] tracyspcy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

why? because of neutrality?

[–] Dragon@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

The terrain makes it hard to invade

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The US, especially the middle. It is bordered by two countries, both of which are on friendly terms with it. The rest of the world is an ocean away. It's also heavily armed.

[–] tracyspcy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

probably good place for us citizens or whatever political agenda is, but for foreigners there is a risk to go through the same things as japanese-americans did during ww2.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Sure, but honestly that would likely be true for most countries here.