Israel has started preparing bomb shelters. So confrontation with Iran seems to be unavoidable, because clearly they've accepted escalation as the price. Right, so Israel has started preparing bomb shelters, and even more embassies are quietly pulling people out, and you’re being told next to nothing about this, because our media are frothing at the mouth at the thought of Iran’s Ayatollah’s falling from power. State’s don’t get civilians ready for incoming fire unless they think incoming fire is on the table. You don’t do that as a precaution. You do it because you’ve already accepted that escalation is plausible enough to hurt your own people and you’re managing the consequences already rather than stopping them. People are entitled to ask why and when the media don’t answer, that’s omission by choice. And once you’re at that point, a lot of the language you’ve been fed instead stops making sense. The reassurances don’t work, the denials don’t work, the “this is just rhetoric” line doesn’t work. The look at the rioters over there line doesn’t work. Israel doesn’t do this sort of thing for fun and it’s Iran in their sights again already it seems, perhaps using the cover of those riots, Israeli instigated as is the accusation. After all, who else has proven their air defences insufficient in the past and hit Israel where it hurts? Right, so Israel is reportedly preparing its bomb shelters again. Not talking about them. Not floating the idea. Not running a civil-defence drill for show. Actually readying them. And that matters, because bomb shelters are not a deterrent after all. They are an admission. They are what you prepare when you believe retaliation is no longer theoretical and when you’ve quietly decided that escalation is something you need to survive, not something you’re confident you can avoid.