The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Always Be Prepared

The Walking Dead – The Rotton Core

If you don’t trust your allies, be ready to go to war with them. 

Did you know that between the two World Wars, the Pentagon was drawing up plans for a potential war they anticipated would happen between the United States and the British Empire?

Crazy, right? From our perspective today, it seems so. Still, at the time, Britain was allied to Japan (Who I’m sure most of you know, was not friendly with the U.S.), which, under the belief the alliance would hold, helped to convince the U.S. military that such a war was a possibility. Even though that war never happened, the military prepared for it.

I bring this up because, after watching Aaron, Father Gabriel, Lydia, and Elijah learn what Maggie had long suspected, that the Commonwealth was not to be trusted, I got the impression they all wished that they had been more prepared.

You can’t blame them for not being ready to go to war with the Commonwealth, considering how dire the communities’ situations were after dealing with the Whisperers. The fact remains that if you don’t entirely trust your would-be allies in a zombie apocalypse, you should prepare for the possibility, maybe even the eventuality, that you will come to blows with them.

I’ll admit that it isn’t the friendliest approach to things, but it might be the smartest, especially if you already have good reason to distrust the other party. The last thing you’d want is to be proven right but have no means of doing anything about it.