Nicosia

I got back from Cyprus just yesterday morning.

And I went to Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus.

And there were just Muslims everywhere.

I've got nothing against Muslims, but I couldn't recognize Cyprus.

I like doing all my vlogs and going around and showing places.

One place as well that I'd quite like to go to is Ammonia, which is a team based in Nicosia in Cyprus.

And I think, for selfish reasons, one thing I've always wanted to do He's actually exactly, I'll do a vlog as well.

And what my idea is to do is to go to, um, there is actually ghost town in Cyprus.

And for this old guy with, you know, his black rimmed glasses saying that to me, I'm going, this guy means business.

He's going to bury me in a hole somewhere in Nicosia, Cyprus, down at the bottom of Mount Olympus.

So I know the U.S. government will do things that will protect secrets.

There's no question about that.

So, to an extent, Ankara isn't imagining the emergence of a new alliance, nor is it imagining that said alliance is largely built around not liking Turkey.

In some ways, the fact that this stops short of a real defense pact is exactly what makes it so tempting for Athens and Nicosia.

they've gotten their hands on some of the best Israeli military technology on the market and are now privy to whatever intelligence Mossad is picking up on the Turks, all while not needing to sign up for any kind of defence agreement with Israel.

That last point would be an advantage for any government, given just how often Israel has been attacked over the years, but is made all the more relevant given that Israel is currently occupying portions of Syria, Gaza and Lebanon, while also technically still fighting Iran.

On the other hand, Greece doesn't particularly need to like Israel, much less Netanyahu personally, in order to love their weapon systems.

Cyprus is in a similar position, given the whole occupation thing.

If Turkey is able to revive the detente with Greece, cool its jets in the Aegean and avoid giving Nicosia any reason to panic, there are plenty of natural hurdles stopping either country from getting too close to Jerusalem.

But if tensions keep rising, the political cost of getting closer to Israel will no longer outweigh the benefit of owning Israeli weapons.

When you look at the fixtures coming up, Besiktas at home, Torins, who are the kind of Portuguese second division team, but the cup winners.

And then it gets a lot tougher because they go to Nicosia to play Amore away from home.

Marseille at home and USG away from home in Belgium as well.

I think this is a game tonight where, as I've already said, they really need to put some points on the board.

Meanwhile, Chevron and its partners want three times the original fee to move Cypriot gas through our pipeline.

Nicosia is calling the jump excessive because at full flow, the additional tariff would add $500 million a year in transport charges.

And finally, Egyptian and Russian officials met on Monday to start work on the Russian industrial quarter in the SC zone.

Talks about a Russian zone first started in 2018 for a 5 million-plus square meter land in east Port Sarid.

Uh, so that's 40 years ago.

Um- And I was, it was a publicity shot for a, I was appearing in a play in Nicosia, Cyprus, and it was called Boeing Boeing, and I was one of, and, uh, I cast myself as the lead, one of the leads.

It only had two male parts and four women's parts.

It was one of those sort of like '66, '60s farces-