Stop being a Dramafag. Defcon 4 is nothing. We hit Defcon 4 several times a year, every year.
Start talking when it gets to 2.
Exactly. I've been subscribed to the alert system for years and DEFCON 4 is a regular kind of occurrence. Saw DEFCON 3 a few times, but things backed off quickly. I used to think that DEFCON 4 was baseline for how the world works and that DEFCON 5 was abnormal cause the world is almost never without conflict of some sort.