Conscription, rationing, converting things into bomb shelters? Sounds fairly standard stuff, TBH if any country's plans did *not* include those I would be seriously concerned about their ability to plan anything more complicated than a picnic.
I see the Express is treating the prospect of wider conflict the same way do the weather, i.e. total armageddon imminent any day now... "Germany ramping up war plan as NATO on brink of all-out conflict with Russia"...
Tensions between NATO and Russia reached new highs this week after Vladimir Putin warned he could provide his allies with long-range weapons to use against the West.
[ JFC their site is a fckn nightmare, never mind them having dozens of similar themed articles in the last few days summarisable as OMG if we look at Russia in a funny way we will all die - side note, always fascinated by the way that the commercial desire for effective clickbait frequently results in something disturbingly close to some of the official scaremongering pieces ]
It's only because we all got complacent and failed to realise until too late that the 'niceness begets niceness' was the wrong strategy for dealing with someone like Putin, that Germany is updating their planning with a more imminent tone to it.
Kicking Russia our of Ukraine is only half of it though, the other half is down to either the Russian people or Putin's chums finding him a window seat and if there's even the slightest whiff of a western push at that then we will be back at square one.
After that it's a waiting game until there is someone at the top who doesn't want to keep invading places that they don't control.
Back on the 'all-out conflict' thing I am wondering if Putin had mentioned to his subservient states that they were going to be firing Putin's long range weapons at Putin's enemies on Putin's command from their own territories (and promoting launch sites, from 'under observation' to 'now targetable') before he made that threat on their behalf the other day.
Strongly suspect he didn't - has there been even a peep from any of them?
Presumably frantically checking the small print on those splendid beneficial trade agreements that they hadn't read properly when they signed them.
Sorry, went on a bit again...TLDR and possibly SOTBO, we can be scared of Putin or we can stop him, but 'we' needs to be more than just 'the west' for that to last.