You can't do this to me!
You can't do this to me!
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rumors have it have trump is planning to
sellgift Alaska to russia. And he'll split up a red state to make up for the lost senate seats.-
Rumors from who?
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His butthole
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Well China's gonna take it in 2077 anyway.
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Here's my plan to stop the war in Ukraine. Start up a massive industrial effort to mass produce printed copies of that photo. Absolutely absurd numbers of them. Cut down forests if necessary. Load them into B52s and drop them on the front lines from high altitude to get a good scatter. Keep doing this every day for 6 months. Like 50 tones of that photo dropped every day.
I will now take exactly zero questions.
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The first blow was the Alaskan gold rush in 1896.
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Part II is coming soon.
Old Mother Russia loses Eastern Siberia to it's nursing neighbor China.
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now that Putin is getting his own personal bitch boy in office, maybe they can arrange something.
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Before "Seward's Folly" gets brought up, I invite you to watch this Premodernist video.
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But Russia also has enormous fossil fuel reserves. They just sold off a colony that was more expensive to guard than it was lucrative to exploit.
Questionable.
There's about 60km between modern day Russia and Alaska, and plenty of troops are already stationed (and were at the time) on its eastern border. Alaska would provide a lot of resources, and it could absolutely be guarded.
But, at the time, Alaska was seen as nothing but barren piece of cold land, not really useful for anything.
There's over 5000km between Vladivostok and Anchorage. Virtually nobody lives in the interior.
It still is. The mineral wealth is extremely difficult to access due to the weather.