It is still a mystery to me, why would there be so many more Lebanese Cedars in Crimea than in the whole of Lebanon...
...in Sevastopol. now Russia, near the memorial to Admiral Nakhimov, killed defending the city against the British and the French who fought the Crimean War to stop him from taking Constantinople... and Lebanon.
There is so much to hike and discover in Crimea, from Ancient Taurica Khersonessos, possibly the origin of the Ancient Greek cult of Zeus and the base of the Dorian "invasion", Balacklava's "Valley of Death" and its underground submarine base, to the Sapun Heights and the massive battlefield there...
The COP30 phased out language about "phasing out" all "fossil fuels"; here's to the return of scientific objectivity
The more we progress, the greater the risk of a devolution into a #DimAge Already, our own #technology is growing too complex for us to understand or manage, and scales up faster than our own understanding can keep up.
The struggle for Suwayda as the Stalingrad of the Arabs. It is about the future of the Levant & the economic independence of the Arabian peninsula, lest we see a return of Turkish supremacy. The Druze hold Stalingrad or the Arabs lose the Peninsula
