For an Irish audience: some scale perspective on Israel-#Palestine: pre-1948 Mandate Palestine (#Israel plus Gaza and West Bank) = 25,585 km2, marginally bigger than the Irish province of Munster, but with 14 million people. Munster has only 1.28 million. 🧵 1/5 All Ireland is more than three times the size of Israel-Palestine, but with only c. half the population. Sparse in comparison. County Cork is bigger (7,500 km2) than the nascent Palestinian state (West Bank plus #Gaza) 🧵2/5

🧵1/20: On Russia: “The Roots of Russia”, written by Dr. Lev Dobriansky (1918- 2008), a renowned Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, and former US Ambassador to the Bahamas, published, courtesy by (US) Naval Institute Proceedings-April 1963, tells us: 🧵 Dobriansky was US-born son of Ukrainian immigrants, staunch anti-Communist. Amongst nuggets that his article brings out, over a half-century ago, when Russia already dominated USSR, which in turn dominated much of world: Russians did not constitute a majority of the USSR.