Warm, but windy. And whitecaps. Drink with Beverley and John and Criegen outside the Blue Song in the sun.
The Americans have agreed to drop the embargo on selling arms to the Republic of Cyprus (South), which claims it needs them for self defence. The implication is that Turks and Turkish Cypriots may attack - which is ludicrous. In fact if the Republic of Cyprus stopped assisting in attacks on Gaza and Yemen no one at all would have any motive to attack them.
One presumes that the US decision was not in response to the tireless importuning of the Greek Cypriots, though the Cyprus Mail reports « Trump Urged to Make Cyprus Problem Top Priority ». Hope springs eternal.
Trump is unlikely to know - or care - but the American ambassador was shot and killed in Nicosia fifty-one years ago. It hasn’t quite been forgotten by the American government as there is an annual commemoration, in which they are mindful to blame no one and refer to the ambassador’s life as lost, as if the cause were his own negligence rather than EOKA sharpshooters (EOKA being right wing Greek Cypriot terrorists - as defined by the Cyprus government, not my left wing self). Two were arrested but the charge of murder was downgraded to possession of illegal firearms because the files had somehow been lost.
Like many others in these genocidal times, the Americans know about as much as they want to know.