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Eastern Europe has become the laboratory for 21st-century civil defense. Lithuania and Latvia are currently constructing “drone walls” and manipulating their natural geography—restoring ancient wetlands to serve as tank-thwarting barriers. In Poland and Latvia, firearm safety and national defense have been integrated into school curricula, while Sweden has revived the practice of mailing civil defense manuals to every household, detailing how to survive a prolonged blackout or an evacuation. For these citizens, the question of whether war is coming has already been answered; the only question left is how well they will endure it.
