The main readership for the blog is USA and Russia and Europe. It isn't much, but a few hundred hits a day is okay. All I started yacking about, anyway, was the critical tectonic importance of North Asia rather than the importance of the USA, Australia etc. So much is happening in North Asia and so little of anything important is or can happen in the Middle East. No one really likes Israel or Palestine...Iraq or Syria or Libya...and how could anyone like them? They are non-starters in terms of massive human reason and abiding human importance.