putin has decided, that Alaska was purchased illegally and wants it back...
Phil
Sellers remorse. And they can't take it back, either. They literally ran out of gas trying to take Kiev back, 175 miles from the Russian border and connected by highway. They don't have a transoceanic invasion force. The worse they can do is launch missiles, and we have better anti-missile defenses than they have missiles. I bet at least 30% of their nuclear warheads wouldn't even go off because the plutonium has depleted with age and lack of maintenance. All they can do is outlast us in determination because the U.S. suffers from an extreme case of ADD and a complete lack of elected leadership manhood.
For Alaska it would be trading the devil for the witch. Both countries are dictatorships. Neither is as bad as Ukraine. Russia is not near as broke as the USA. Alaskans could keep their U.S. citizenship and Social Security benefits. I have a friend that has moved to Guatemala and he gets his SS payment right on schedule every month.
"One prominent ultranationalist, pro-war military blogger framed the decree as a step towards new territorial conflicts with Russian neighbors, including the U.S." A blogger said this? Unnamed? Right.....
Today, Putin is primarily concerned with Eastern Europe. He has [several times] rebuked the Alaska thought. The OP (original peanut) thinks this is a new development. Has been brought up for over 20 years at the least. There are a few gems in this article, and more floating around... 👇
I would not be surprised at all to see Uncle Joe Biden try to give Vlad Alaska for a free Ukraine. Biden should have been stopped before he ran for office.
Imagine what he is going to do out of spite when he realizes he is going to lose.
Russia couldn't take Alaska. And Russia needs to worry about it's own far east. China wants it and Russia couldn't stop that on their best day. Russia's far east already has more Chinese people in it than Russians. Russia's far east a real possible spot for a major, major war.
I would not be surprised at all to see Uncle Joe Biden try to give Vlad Alaska for a free Ukraine. Biden should have been stopped before he ran for office.
Imagine what he is going to do out of spite when he realizes he is going to lose.
he offers Alaska he won't make it far. The uproar etc would be unbelievable and Alaska can defend its own IMHO. It wouldn't be easy.
Except none of this will happen. Gayghost wants us all in a panic. No one is sweating Russia thats for sure. Not the people I know anyway. Some idiot liberal somewhere might.
The amount of resources that the government gets in revenue from the Mineral Mining Act precludes any discussion and the fact that from a strategic point of view capitulating to Russian by giving Alaska back to Russia would be tantamount to suicide.
Come on man! Can't you come up with something original like "Trump will starve children and kill old people"? Or "Trump will cut social security"? Or "Trump will overturn Roe v Wade?" Oh, wait, forget that one. Come on man! What are you "thinging"?
We hear some of the young Russian boys get cocky and talk about Russia taking Alaska back but the parents soon step in tell them how good it is here.
Most Russians I speak with there in Delta and in Talkeetna too, are very happy they are here and not there and they demand respect from their children.
OTOH I wish they would follow game rules.... or we can be just like Russia. Baren.
Vern, I have been to Delta many times over thirty years, one of my best buddies was a veterinarian in your town, Clint, we would talk about the Russian’s on hunting trips when they first came over, they had some problems at first with Doctoring animals, but he said when they got established and going, he said hard working good folks, his best customers, sounds like quite a population now, sure do miss old Clinton, I guess it’s been three years since he passed, loved him like a brother.
Vern, I have been to Delta many times over thirty years, one of my best buddies was a veterinarian in your town, Clint, we would talk about the Russian’s on hunting trips when they first came over, they had some problems at first with Doctoring animals, but he said when they got established and going, he said hard working good folks, his best customers, sounds like quite a population now, sure do miss old Clinton, I guess it’s been three years since he passed, loved him like a brother.
Angus, I also miss Clint. He was well thought of here and we both served on the F&G Advisory Committee.
My most recent run-in with young Russians has been over their use of AR15s for cranes and geese while there are hunters in ground blinds out there.
Vern, I have been to Delta many times over thirty years, one of my best buddies was a veterinarian in your town, Clint, we would talk about the Russian’s on hunting trips when they first came over, they had some problems at first with Doctoring animals, but he said when they got established and going, he said hard working good folks, his best customers, sounds like quite a population now, sure do miss old Clinton, I guess it’s been three years since he passed, loved him like a brother.
Angus, I also miss Clint. He was well thought of here and we both served on the F&G Advisory Committee.
My most recent run-in with young Russians has been over their use of AR15s for cranes and geese while there are hunters in ground blinds out there.
Never mind that its illegal... thats one of the things. They seem to have zero respect for game laws.
I'll never forget Clint's stories about neutering a bunch of wolves for ADFG so they could turn em loose and hopefully this would reduce predation some how.
I'll never forget Clint's stories about neutering a bunch of wolves for ADFG so they could turn em loose and hopefully this would reduce predation some how.
It did. They couldn't make more wolves to eat more game. LOL. ADFG. Sometimes they try so hard...
I'll never forget Clint's stories about neutering a bunch of wolves for ADFG so they could turn em loose and hopefully this would reduce predation some how.
That reminds of a story out of Texas where they were having a meeting with goat and sheep producers that wanted help from the state with eradicating coyotes. Supposedly a PETA type lady showed up to protest and got up to say that she believed it was wrong to kill the coyotes and said the state should start a neutering program for the male coyotes.
A sheep farmer got up and said "lady I don't think you understand. Those coyotes aren't fu--ing our sheep, they're eating them."
I'll never forget Clint's stories about neutering a bunch of wolves for ADFG so they could turn em loose and hopefully this would reduce predation some how.
That reminds of a story out of Texas where they were having a meeting with goat and sheep producers that wanted help from the state with eradicating coyotes. Supposedly a PETA type lady showed up to protest and got up to say that she believed it was wrong to kill the coyotes and said the state should start a neutering program for the male coyotes.
A sheep farmer got up and said "lady I don't think you understand. Those coyotes aren't fu--ing our sheep, they're eating them."
I'll never forget Clint's stories about neutering a bunch of wolves for ADFG so they could turn em loose and hopefully this would reduce predation some how.
The wolves weren’t F’ing the moose, they were eating them. 😉
I'll never forget Clint's stories about neutering a bunch of wolves for ADFG so they could turn em loose and hopefully this would reduce predation some how.
Was Clint the vet on Ft. Wainright for a while in the Early 90s?
I'll never forget Clint's stories about neutering a bunch of wolves for ADFG so they could turn em loose and hopefully this would reduce predation some how.
The wolves weren’t F’ing the moose, they were eating them. 😉
Yet it would work if you could neuter them all. But the cost and probability would fail like normal. Make all the jokes you want. But I wish a lot of people would be neutered since its illegal to do anything other..at least we could prevent their spread.
..........I wish a lot of people would be neutered since its illegal to do anything other..at least we could prevent their spread.
The Chinese did it to a limited extent, but it just changed their population explosion problem. Now they have a demographic problem. Now they're dealing with that by exporting people to here.
Interestingly, China also fixed a two century opium epidemic in 10 short years. Now, in just a half century, the U.S. has a huge drug abuse crisis and immigration/population crisis. It's difficult to believe that this is a series of happenstance accidents, especially since nearly half of the population in this republic has been fighting these trends politically tooth and nail.
Ironbender, sorry I don’t get on here enough, I’m sure it was, he was a Captain in the army, stationed on all kinds of bases, Clint Crusberg, named my youngest son after him and Eastwood.
Yep, they flew him all over Alaska, he worked on wolves, buffs, moose, had a ton of funny stories, he took care of race dogs at the big races, he sent me his medical books after twenty something years, all highlighted with stuff to doctor my livestock, still look at them. I guess he was about like Toby, around 62 RIP Clint.