So Russia is claiming Alaska. I think we can work something out

[rpannier]

They can have Sarah Palin

[lark]

1. They'd have to take her entire fucked up family too, we'll negotiate very hard for that!

[mopinko]

2. i have a niece there. he can have her too.

used to be besties, til she lost her mind.

[Sancho]

3. Didn't we buy Iceland? Why do we need two ice wastelands?

[rpannier]

4. Tump was gonna buy it

But then he discovered he wouldn't be able to grift the purchase and Iceland hates him

[Calista241]

12. he tried to buy Greenland, not Iceland.

[rpannier]

15. I stand corrected on that part

But I stand on my other two points
The people there didn't like him
He couldn't grift it

[AkFemDem]

5. Don't underestimate the geographical importance

Of any Arctic territory in a melting world. What they really want is control of both the oil and the shipping channels. The net result will be they effectively surround both Europe and Asia.

An older article discussing this- https://news.usni.org/2021/11/05/russia-wants-to-keep-status-as-arctic-superpower-says-expert

[rpannier]

8. Not giving them Alaska

Just Sarah

[AkFemDem]

9. That I could cosign!

[Chainfire]

6. What don't we make a deal with them, and give them Texas instead?

When it gets too damn hot to live in the South, Alaska is going to look mighty good.

[rpannier]

7. Not saying give them Alaska

Just Palin.
That's kind of Alaska-ish

[Chainfire]

13. My daughter lives in Alaska and she tells me that Palin is a joke there...

Russia has, as far as I am concerned, lost their "bluffability." They can't take their neighbor with their mighty army, and they think that they can intimidate us? We need to post a map of all of the homes or Russian's oligarchs and let them know that they all have a nuclear warhead with their name on it. That bluff shit can go two ways.

At some time we are going to have to deal with Russian official's open nuclear threats. Perhaps after the next one we should take them seriously and melt Moscow.

[bluedigger]

10. They can come take it after they refloat their navy.

[48656c6c6f20]

11. The world's largest glass parking lot in Moscow?

[patphil]

14. Npw why would Russia think they could just take Alaska?

Perhaps it's because their long term plan includes the destruction of the United States from within.
Their intent is to engineer a civil war in the United States that tears the nation apart.
With the nation fragmented into groups of states, Alaska would be quite vulnerable.
So, they keep pouring money into radical right-wing Republican campaigns, and keep elevating disinformation/misinformation, all the while super hyping the need for guns, guns, guns.

[kimbutgar]

16. +1

Yes destroy the US from within by dividing, weakening our government and democracy.