Military/civil exercises

St. Reality shows it's signs in Taiwan sometimes. Although a game, how it could be realistic, people who tried The Game, know.

Between 2PM and 2:30PM today here was a kind of NNNI exercise (nothing can not surprise us" in literal translation) we remember from former Yugoslavia: siren, everything stopped in the street etc. for some time-here 20 min-and then again siren and normal life again.

Because of typhoons (my 4th here is just approaching Taiwan), the exercise has been delayed few times already, today they succeeded. I did not know about it, and when heard sirens, my reaction was a bit of "curiosity", which I developed in the real air attacks in Croatia 1991/1992. Means, this feeling of uneasyness in your stomach... interesting it is still here after 15 years!

This reminds one how stupid games of warlords can be sometimes. Fortunately, maybe (MAYBE) it succeeds that 5000 yrs of Chinese tradition (as Meiyunn would say) and some intenational affairs helps that Taiwan escapes the fate of Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia... at least in this round. It does not seem any one (except Big Villain, sure, and our dear Izrael followers of the Nazi "methodology") would exercise that kind of games these days, when it comes for the State openly pursuing it's interests (for the hidden I do not say, there is too long list) by direct killing of the people in the streets.

Let it be that way. You, believers, light some long, fat candles in that name.