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[bill cobbett]

Alaska ...!!!

End the Illegal Occupation of Alaska.

... and return Alaska to the Pesky Russians...

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petiti ... a/SFG1ppfN

[Oceanside50]

Alaska ...!!!

End the Illegal Occupation of Alaska.

... and return Alaska to the Pesky Russians...

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petiti ... a/SFG1ppfN

http://www.alaskahistoricalsociety.org/ ... ka/FAQs/15

"....American traders and whalers were frequent visitors to Alaska's shores, and many spoke highly of its resources. Exploratory steps were taken in 1860 to determine whether Russia would sell Alaska to America. But the question had to await the conclusion of the Civil War. In 1866, a year after the war's end, the Czar's advisors indicated that the Russian-American Company, the semi-official arm of the Russian government that managed the Russian colony in Alaska, was nearing bankruptcy. It would need direct government aid to survive. The advisors also said that Russia's American colony was impossible to defend. The Russian treasury could not afford either a rescue of the company or a war with the United States or Britain over a colony on another continent. Russia's minister to the United States, Edward de Stoeckl, in early 1867 opened negotiations for the sale of Alaska to America.
On March 29, 1867, Stoeckl informed Secretary of State William Henry Seward that the Czar had agreed to sell Russian interests in Alaska to the United States. The Russian minister and Seward drafted a treaty that same night. On June 20 President Andrew Johnson signed the treaty and sent it to the United States Senate for confirmation.

The treaty provided for a purchase price of $7.2 million in gold. All private property was to be retained by its owners--there wasn't much--and Russian Orthodox Church members were to assume title to churches built in Alaska by the Russian government or the Russian-American Company. The United States Senate approved the treaty by a large majority. On October 18, 1867, transfer ceremonies occurred at Sitka and Alaska became a United States possession..."

[humanist]

Russia is being reckless. Here comes another Cyprus lol
How irresponsible this day and age

[repulsewarrior]

...suggest Russia can buy Crimea, the Ukraine can use a whack of money, the EU would like a hefty discount for Gaz no doubt, and Obama's word "costly" would have a meaning.

[bill cobbett]

...suggest Russia can buy Crimea, the Ukraine can use a whack of money, the EU would like a hefty discount for Gaz no doubt, and Obama's word "costly" would have a meaning.

Breaking news... of a referendum in Occupied Quebec for secession to France...!!! ...

[repulsewarrior]

...obviously it is theft bill, unfortunately, quick and surgical it is not; penny wise, pound foolish, i say.

...yes, our much loved Pauline, an admirer of Erdogan, i hear, as well; a debate tonight on the telly, ought to be as good as the hockey played here, tough and grinding (there won't be one in English though, pity).

...if Russia was a Super Power, more so, he (Putin) would be buddies with Obama; and pay cash.

What is the revolution in the Ukraine, what was it? Svoboda now, the stupidity on Language, and an Orange revolution, when? Corruption, again an elite that should no/know better, and yet for so long, "they" get away with it. This is an assault on Freedom, that is to say all of us, based on fear, more Liberty for some.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/27/222658/hero-of-ukraines-orange-revolution.html?sp=/99/117/, an interesting post.

...funny you should mention France, what with enosis and all, Free Trade, the EU and Canada don't you know?