RUSSIA IS PLANNIG TO TAKE ALASKA!!!

[KirillMazur]

Certainly. Do you know how Putin calls Alaska? Ice Crym (-ea).

[~Elizabeth~]

What does the United States of America mean to you?

I care about the continental 48 states of the USA, not Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc.

[Annihilus]

I care about the continental 48 states of the USA, not Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc.

How could you not care for Alaska? It is one the few places I would like to live. And with global warming vast parts of the US might have to relocate there. You'll be happy to have it then.

[Kess]

I care about the continental 48 states of the USA, not Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc.

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Jour...United-States/

Read this it should change your mind about Alaska.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam all have strategic importance in defense of the US mainland.

I have to put my childhood prejudice toward Puerto Ricans aside for national security reasons.

[Kess]

I read somewhere that the US paid $7.2 million to Russia for Alaska. That is a ridiculously low sum of money. They were ripped off. I don't care about Alaska.

A state in the continental USA is different. Georgia borders my current state of Florida.

I worry more about illegal immigration to the USA than I do about Russia invading us. In fact, I don't worry about Russia at all.

China is a bigger threat.

When you compare it with the Louisiana purchase, it looks like a bit of a rip-off indeed. Nevertheless, the purchase price was set at $7.2 million (equivalent to $125 million in 2022). Russia is the one who got ripped off by the US, actually.

[gixajo]

Shit, Spain was also thinking of taking Alaska. Putin has gone ahead of us again

[~Elizabeth~]

When you compare it with the Louisiana purchase, it looks like a bit of a rip-off indeed. Nevertheless, the purchase price was set at $7.2 million (equivalent to $125 million in 2022). Russia is the one who got ripped off by the US, actually.

That is what I meant. Russia was ripped off by the USA.

[Kess]

That is what I meant. Russia was ripped off by the USA.

The same applies to France, but in the end, they had their reasons. Russia sold Alaska because they would rather see it owned by the US than Britain.

[Smaland]

I think you're missing the entire point here, sir. Russia is not going to invade Alaska. That's the joke ...the joke is on your gullibility to fall for that disinformation.

For me, if the Governor of Alaska refers to an invasion in his tweets, it's not disinformation. I linked to them in my first post on p. 1518 of the thread about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Although I believe that the Russian army is incompetent to the point that it can't succeed in an invasion at the present time, this can change. In 15 years, Russia's army could become strong again, and it could be led by generals who knew their business.

People might say that this is illogical, because it would start World War III; however, people are not always logical, and Russia did make these threats.