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(Mar 10, 2022 09:53 PM)confused2 Wrote: [ -> ]What is the game Grandma's footsteps?
One person is Grandma – he/she faces a wall. The others in the group start at the other end of the room, then try to creep up to Grandma and tap her on the shoulder. However, at any moment, Grandma can turn around suddenly. If she sees anyone moving, she points at them and that person must return to the start.

(Mar 10, 2022 09:53 PM)confused2 Wrote: [ -> ]What is the game Grandma's footsteps?
One person is Grandma – he/she faces a wall. The others in the group start at the other end of the room, then try to creep up to Grandma and tap her on the shoulder. However, at any moment, Grandma can turn around suddenly. If she sees anyone moving, she points at them and that person must return to the start.

(Mar 10, 2022 11:55 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]

(Mar 10, 2022 09:53 PM)confused2 Wrote: [ -> ]What is the game Grandma's footsteps?
One person is Grandma – he/she faces a wall. The others in the group start at the other end of the room, then try to creep up to Grandma and tap her on the shoulder. However, at any moment, Grandma can turn around suddenly. If she sees anyone moving, she points at them and that person must return to the start.

Statues (generic form)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statues_(game)

The Weeping Angels of Doctor Who are based on that game. However, those incrementally encroaching "statues" don't exchange places if touching the curator/Grandma. But instead send their victims back in time to before the latter were born (among other things). 

Potential historical candidates that have been submitted for a temporally displaced Vlad are Peter the Great, Alexander III, Otto von Bismarck, Ivan the Terrible.

Weeping Angels are inherent predators like wolves, hawks, sharks, the Borg, etc. ("Rehabilitation is futile.") However, their prey can just as much be other predators, as "innocents".

(Mar 10, 2022 08:04 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: [ -> ]I’m with ADMIRAL JACK SHANAHAN on this one. We did drive Russian foreign policy in the wrong direction. We sacrificed our long-term relations with Russia on the altar of an ill-conceived plan to haphazardly expand an outmoded military alliance, ill-conceived for domestic political purposes and ill-conceived as a legacy for one man, (Bill Clinton). We excluded and alienated Russia. The contention has always been with the expansion, and NATO not taking the views outside of its members into consideration, which isn’t entirely unreasonable when you consider the possible interpretations of two documents that we signed.

Each participating State has an equal right to security. We reaffirm the inherent right of each and every participating State to be free to choose or change its security arrangements, including treaties of alliance, as they evolve. Each State also has the right to neutrality. Each participating State will respect the rights of all others in these regards. They will not strengthen their security at the expense of the security of other States. Within the OSCE no State, group of States or organization can have any pre-eminent responsibility for maintaining peace and stability in the OSCE area or can consider any part of the OSCE area as its sphere of influence.
ISTANBUL DOCUMENT 1999

The security of each participating State is inseparably linked to that of all others. Each participating State has an equal right to security. We reaffirm the inherent right of each and every participating State to be free to choose or change its security arrangements, including treaties of alliance, as they evolve. Each State also has the right to neutrality. Each participating State will respect the rights of all others in these regards. They will not strengthen their security at the expense of the security of other States. Within the OSCE no State, group of States or organization can have any pre-eminent responsibility for maintaining peace and stability in the OSCE area or can consider any part of the OSCE area as its sphere of influence. We will maintain only those military capabilities are commensurate with our legitimate individual or collective security needs.
ASTANA COMMEMORATIVE DECLARATION

Zhang Jun, China’s representative to the UN, encouraged us to seek a security balance with Russia that’s sustainable.

The situation in Ukraine has deteriorated where it is today due to a combination of complex factors. To resolve complex issues, what is required is calm and reason rather than adding fuel to the flame, which will only lead to escalation. To resolve the crisis in Ukraine it is imperative to abide by the principles and the purposes of the UN charter, respect and ensure the sovereignty of territorial integrity of countries, and to abide by the principle of indivisibility of security and address reasonable security concerns of the parties concerned. It is imperative to stick with dialog and negotiation and to find a resolution to the dispute through peaceful means. Any action that’s conducive to easing the situation and a political settlement will receive China’s support. Any action that is not conducive to promoting a diplomatic solution under which in essence means fanning and fueling the flame leading to escalation will be met with China’s opposition. We are deeply concerned at the intensifying unilateral sanctions. Sanctions are not an effective means to finding a lasting solution to the issue in question. On the contrary, they will create disastrous humanitarian consequences and their spillover effect will create a dimension of loss to other countries.  Importing offensive weapons into Ukraine and sending mercenaries may further worsen the situation and create more and bigger risks. China will continue to speak for peace and to work for peace. We encourage Russia and Ukraine with their direct negotiations and we express the hope that their talks are fruitful where peace can be created. China has always been committed to create peace through negotiations. On the second day of the conflict, we arranged a phone call with President Putin. President Xi Jinping already expressed his wish that Russia and Ukraine will hold peace talks as soon as possible to which President Putin responded positively. China is also willing, when the time requires, to join the international community to carry out necessary good offices. We also encourage the United States, NATO and EU to carry an equal dialog with Russia and to face up to the antagonism and problems that have been accumulating for years and to pay high attention to the negative effect to the security environment for Russia that has resulted from the continued eastward expansion of NATO and in accordance with the principle of the indivisible security to seek to and establish a European security that is balanced, effective and sustainable.

IMHO, he’s spot on. This is the only way to end this. Our go-to emotional upheaval is not going to work in this situation. NATO, the EU and the United States need to gracefully acknowledge our wrong doings and realize that our mistakes are now affecting millions. The question you should be asking yourself is, do our leaders of today possess enough self-awareness to admit that they misjudged this situation?

I can admit when I'm wrong. If you disagree with me, don't be passive aggressive. Point out my fatal flaws.

(Mar 11, 2022 01:46 AM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]Day 15 summary.

https://militaryland.net/ukraine/invasio...5-summary/

The big event today is that a Russian column reached the eastern outskirts of Kyiv and entered a town called Brovary. The Ukrainians were waiting as they did and struck the Russian column with anti-armor weaponry. And after suffering many losses the Russians pulled back out of Brovary.

https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/stat...8895363072

https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/stat...3502941191

US military analysts are amazed at how ineptly those Russians behaved. They didn't have any scouts out in front to detect the opposing forces, they didn't have infantry out on the flanks to engage them. They just drove blindly into a trap. It was a totally botched combined arms operation.

(Mar 11, 2022 02:23 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Kharkiv railway station Ukraine

Can you imagine being here?