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 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.
In todays’ world, transport choke points are unavoidable, a feature of an unsustainable, #globalized world.
The #RedSea passage #BabElMandab is one of those, critical because of the #MiddleEast's central importance to the world's #EnergyEconomy
Agree to the rich world's desired outcome, before building the systems that made it rich? You get one form #CarbonColonialism
Then again, too much of a system focus, you get the excesses of the gilded age.
Better a #FailedState than a crazy kingdom.
A failed state is like a broken clock; it is broken, but may still be right twice day. On the other hand, a crazy kingdom is like an off clock; if it is off by 5%, it is only right once every 10 days.
...In addition, in a failed state, you and your community stand a chance to grow and succeed; the crazy king can't easily reach you, unlike in our modern anarcho-tyranny
