from that continuing sh!t show.

It appears it has already been decided.

as he is a fawning fan-boy, or a mewling sycophant, even. Trump worships Putin.

They both make me physically ill.

because she knows that switching from R to D in Alaska would be committing political suicide

It's possible some moderate Republican members of Congress become so disgusted with the Trump Administration that they switch parties, giving Democrats the majority in the Senate and House. It would only take a small few. If that happened, much of Trump's agenda would grind to a screeching halt.

The original medieval kingdom of Russia, the Kievan Russ and its capital Kijv, stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, across what is modern-day Belarus and modern-day Ukraine. From there, it expanded east with various wars of conquest (the capital was relocated eastwards to Moscow) until it eventually reached the Pacific Ocean.

Maybe Russia should return all their stolen territories to the natives it has subjugated. Isn't it odd that the vast majority of taxpayer-money gets invested into Moscow and St. Petersburg, in classical ethnic-russian territory, while the eastern territories where other ethnicities live get next to nothing?

I know the Russians had established an outpost in California and may lay an absurd claim there. But Hawaii?

Anyway, I think Putin is smart enough to know the suggestion he take back Alaska is a stupid one. But it's interesting that one of his associates should make such idle dreams public. Russia can pummel a nation like Ukraine, sacrificing its own youth to do so. But on the international scale, sans nukes, Russia is militarily a feeble mouse -- thanks to Pooty-Poot.

(And, yes, the "nukes" thing is very concerning.)

is to mock 45 and his insistence on "taking over" Canada, Greenland, and Panama.

Has made this statement. Probably the exact same asshole, I’d bet.

When was Cali Russian territory?

Fort Ross is still there as a California State Historic Park. It was occupied as a settlement from 1812-1842. The fort was the southernmost Russian outpost on the west coast of North America. My guess is the tsar might not have abandoned it if it had remained active until 1849 and the discovery of gold in the Sierra.

As far as a claim goes, I’m reminded of how my dog claims various bushes every time he takes a walk. Thirty years is nothing. Putin can pound sand. What an asshole.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipMOyX-ILCKPz70grm4xA8qSgJMJOtOu3zf_5MIz=s831-w831-h624-n-k-no

https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=449

We paid Russia for it. Not giving it back and you assholes can’t afford to buy it back.

You want it? Come and take it. See what happens. Of course, that assumes your troop transport ships will even float once loaded. Based on what I’m seeing of Russian military equipment involved in the War in Ukraine, I’m betting none of them are seaworthy. I’d also bet transport planes aren’t much better off, and I’m pretty sure most of your nukes would blow up in their silos.

(The Russians have never put much emphasis on routine maintenance like Western militaries do. A lot of their ships aren’t much better than garbage scows, as put by someone I know.)

The second most powerful army in Ukraine is a paper tiger.

some troops to put aboard those troop transport ships. He's running out of those very quickly as well. The few who aren't killed or who defect to the Ukrainians are damned tired of fighting Putin's stupid ego-driven wars.

what would be his sale price?

"Fox News" in Russian? Solovyev would be working for them if he were American. He's a blathering fool.

... and is determined to rule the world. The entire planet is in mortal danger as long as this putrid little man fouls it with his continued existence.

Saving deal (for Trump) in Ukraine.

Failing that, I think Trump’s first term asking price was $10B.

The ridiculous things this psychopath has said on Russian TV is so over the top, not only can he not be taken seriously, one has to question his sanity.
Not only has he talked about "nuking" just about every Western capital, he claimed it would be the same as Sodom and Gomorrah.

His drooling blitherisms are increasingly unhinged:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vladimir_Solovyov

He's the "Baghdad Bob" of Russia

It was called Seward's Folly at the time, 1867. The price was 7.2 million greenbacks. Sec'y Seward was ridiculed but he certainly has the last and huge laugh now as Alaska is worth thousands of times more withall of it's size and resources...and of course it's modern infrastructure that has been developed.

I doubt neither Russia of Canada can afford to buy it now.

Putin spent a great deal to re-elect trump and trump will be looking as to how to repay his debt to Putin

And give them Texas and Florida?

eff off.

... France wants Louisiana back

Will tsf do it?

To enforce the laws are we sure he will bother with them?

I'm not so sure there are people that would stop him.

We got Russia off the continent.

Even if Alaska was completely uninhabitable and didn't have a dime's worth of resources, it was worth it.

Hey if this is the way they want it, tsf's incoming administration should start by returning all of North America back to the Native Americans.

You accepted $7.2 million in American gold (equivalent to about a billion dollars today) to relieve yourself of a territory that you were unable to maintain. You legally gave up your claim to Alaska in 1867. Deal with it.

To dim one state at a time.

I would not be surprised.

Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase

Why would those assholes ever think they could take it back now?