💡 HISTORY: Did you know Russia invaded & occupied every single country to become part of the Soviet Union? Those are the "former Soviet Republics," including Ukraine, Estonia, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan.
In the aftermath of the 1917 February revolution against the Russian Czar, the Russian Empire collapsed and all these countries, as well as Finland, took the opportunity to declare independence. But when the new democratic Russian government was overthrown by the communists in the 1917 Bolshevik October revolution and subsequent bloody civil war of 1918-1921, the communist regime then proceeded to reinvade all these countries (minus Baltic states and Finland) and by 1922 recreated the Russian Empire under a new name - the Soviet Union. When Stalin & Hitler started the Second World War as allies in September 1939, the Soviet empire promptly invaded Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania and Finland, forcing the Baltic states into the Soviet Union and annexing huge chunks of Poland, Finland and Romania.
So, Russia has already invaded Europe to build an empire twice in recent history. And now Russia wants to do it for the third time, but decades after the empire collapsed yet again in 1989-1991.
This is our @CDCgov
X No warning on BA.5
X Still says 2 vaccine doses ="fully vaccinated"
X Says 5 days is all that's needed for isolation when 5 days is the median length of infectiousness
X 1 in 4 age 50+ w/ 2nd booster (<-survival benefit)
X Transmission is the accurate map👇
Our free Single Cell Genomics Day livestream starts tomorrow at 10AM EST! You can ask questions during talks via twitter (include #singlecellgenomicsday) and we'll relay them to speakers, see you soon!
Event Strategies was paid $1.3M from the Trump Campaign for audio and visual services.
Their founder, Tim Unes, was "stage manager" for last week's insurrection event.
Here's his company's number and email address. Let them know what we think of insurrectionists.
Carlos Carrasco wrote a heartfelt thank you to Cleveland and the Indians organization on his social media pages after being traded to the Mets on Thursday. Photo: John Kuntz, cleveland.com
Cleveland Clinic has another American citizen in the vascular medicine community as of today. My friend and colleague Dr. Marcelo Gomes, (left). #America @AnticoagForum
Just notified that I'll be promoted to Professor with Tenure as of 2021, so it's official, I'm an old man. Something my laboratory of mostly 20-somethings and my teenage kids already remind of on a daily basis. Looking forward to letting more of my curmudgeon-y side out though!🙂
Having a fantastic #wellness day today at Arthur’s Acres Animal Sanctuary snuggling one of my favorites, King Karl. My therapy!!🐷 #palliativepig ( doesn’t he make my pigs look small?)