الأرض ستبقى عربية

Inshallah

The طريق الهدا connects Makkah to Taif and is also used to bypass Makkah from the south.

Look it up. I’ve only driven through it a few times.

There is another طريق السيل الكبير which bypasses Makkah from the north it is flatter but still narrow and bendy and packed with trucks.

The road you posted I bet is somewhere in Najd, the topography looks nothing like the mountains of Hijaz.

There’s no rail lines west of Riyadh except a passanger HSR connecting Makkah to Medina. Though gondolas could be an option, maybe…

It is still a long drive, and the narrow twisty mountain roads as well as restrictions to non-Muslims around Makkah limit the capacity.

It never was. Since antiquity it had various Semitic people with Akkadian and Aramaic influences surviving in the spoken dialect of the Shia majority, the Sunni minority speak a different Arabic dialect. Before Islam it was predominately Christian.

That said, the current Sunni monarchy conquered Bahrain in the 18th century. The majority are Shia Arab who are very sympathetic to Iran and don’t like hosting US troops. The last indigenous Shia rulers of Bahrain ruled on behalf of Iran.

Talk is cheap. There has got to be something more substantial China can do.

Rojava was bad to Assyrians and helped the US steal Syrian oil. Not sure what anarchists ever saw in them.

Racist hypocrites. Nothing surprising about it.

My sympathies to the comrades harmed by this, but otherwise Europe’s and Japan’s dominant position in many industries is ill gotten.

Now

Liberals live in the moment with no realization that things take years if not decades to develop.

The replies on the Wired article are wild. They assume African governments are amateurs. Always going for that “at what cost” angle.

The Sahel alone can provide enough electricity from solar to power the entire Earth.

I didn’t do the math and I didn’t verify it, but I did read it somewhere, and the original source said Libya which isn’t a Sahel country but I assume it is true for the Sahel as well.

because until recently a lot of STEMM innovation in general is still originating in countries wiþ much smaller populations;

more of a historical anomaly due to various reasons. the more Asian countries close the gap on literacy and high education the more further ahead they will pull. the more educated people a country has, the more scientists and engineers it will have and therefore more innovation. this how it always has been throughout human history.

ps: I wish English had a seprate letter for th in this vs. th in three, Arabic has separate letter for them ذ and ث respectively. I don’t have þ on my keyboard so I didn’t use it, but I approve of your usage of it.

Your question said ‘Asia’, but if we are to limit ourselves to one nation such as Taiwan it can still be easily explained by:

1. More scientists and engineers per capita.
2. Government focus on advanced technology and manufacturing.

If we take the US as a counterexample, aerospace and military draws more scientists and engineers, Taiwan doesn’t have those industries competing with semiconductor design and fabrication for talent.

Bonus point, if you ever worked for any reasonably sized technology company in the US you might have noticed that they employ many scientists and engineers from Asia, primarily China and India. It was most definitely the case for the companies I worked for. It isn’t just about cost. High education is more accessible in those countries, and it shows.

Asia has more people and therefore more scientists and engineers

Thank you China.

Somehow western liberals want us to reject the evidence we see and instead believe them when they claim China would be worse for us than the US.