[A Navy Vet]

"I suggest you **quietly** seek out and talk to some of the people who fled these sorts of regimes: like Russian and Slovak refugees who fled before the USSR and Wall collapse."

Like I've said many times on this site and others, stop broadcasting your macho intentions. Build little family/close friend groups. And yes, seek out those who have first hand knowledge of tyrannical regimes. They have clandestine insight that could be beneficial in many ways.

[PIF]

stop broadcasting your macho intentions
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I was replying to someone else that was broadcasting - please read the thread before accusing me of some thing I did not say. The other guy asked me for advice & I told him to learn what he was up against.