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I guess Alaska is free property now
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I guess he could think that it’s an unincorporated territory, like Puerto Rico. That’s a US territory, but unless it becomes a state or an incorporated territory, it’s not technically part of the United States, and it wouldn’t be up for grabs.
On that note, looks like the Russian nationalist crowd is resolutely forging on:
newsnationnow.com/…/russian-claims-alaska-trump-p…
Russian TV hosts say Alaska belongs to them ahead of Trump-Putin summit
(NewsNation) — Russian state television personalities have renewed claims that Alaska rightfully belongs to Russia as President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage on Friday.
During a recent broadcast of Russia-1’s “60 Minutes” program, propagandist Olga Skabeyeva referred to Alaska as “our Alaska” while discussing a joint Russian-Chinese military patrol that approached within 200 miles of the Alaskan coast, Newsweek reported.
The comment came after State Duma Deputy Adalbi Shkhagoshev mentioned “our aircraft approached the borders of Alaska,” prompting Skabeyeva to incorrectly claim he had said “our Alaska.”
I suppose it’s probably part of this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_payment_conspiracy
The Alaska payment conspiracy (Russian: Аляскинский платежный заговор, romanized: Ali͡askinskiĭ platezhnyĭ zagovor), also known as the Orkney conspiracy (Russian: Оркни заговор), is a conspiracy theory that the Russian Empire never received payment for the Alaska purchase from the United States, and that instead the ship, the Orkney, that carried the payment in gold was detonated for insurance money by Alexander ‘Sandy’ Keith, a con artist and explosives expert.[1][2][3] This conspiracy theory has been debunked in several ways.[4]
Fondots@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
it’s not technically part of the United States,
I feel like this is a really bad way to think of Puerto Rico
There’s a lot of legal weirdness about their status, I get why people think of it that way, and I’m pretty sure that’s how it was explained to me almost verbatim back in like 4th grade.
But I think it’s better to think of Puerto Rico as “part of The United States, but not one of the united states”
That is, it’s part of the country known as the USA
But it is not one of the states that are united that the country is named after.
They’re US citizens, if they wanted to, a Puerto Rican could run for president and do anything that any other natural born US citizen could do, just the same as if they’d been born in Texas.
sundray@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t understand how you could be dumb enough to vote for this idiot
Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You don’t have to be dumb. You can also be evil. All Trump voters exist on a spectrum between dumb and evil to me. I have known a few and they all fall onto the dumb/ignorant side of the spectrum. A lot of them are single-issue voters too.
But honestly, a lot of Republicans are this way. They think their party fights for the working class, despite clear and abundant evidence to the contrary. When a voting bloc like that exists, it’s really not that surprising they can be convinced to vote for someone like Trump.
StocktonCrushed@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
[deleted]starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I know a very smart lady (university professor, STEM) who voted for him. Church bubble.
descartador@lemmy.eco.br 2 weeks ago
It was rigged! People didn’t vote on him
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Love the Fox banner. “Threatening consequences”. The consequences being that he’ll leave.
That’s right, the worst thing that can happen to a person is to not be in Trump’s presence.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds like the best thing tbh.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
he had me at "i will leave"
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Damn it.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hopefully it is good and he never comes back to the US.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The point being that Alaska is a US state and he seems to think its a different country
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I know, he also didn’t understand that Puerto Rico’s population are American citizens. His ignorance if basic knowledge has been blatantly obvious for decades.
Just rolling with his current ramblings and trying to make light of them to avoid losing all hope.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
he think it’s russias territory.
ndixon@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
A Shart Of A Deal
nialv7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you are gonna give Alaska away at least remember to ask for a refund for the 7.2 million we paid…
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wasn’t this the plot of the Battlefield: Bad Company series?
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure you find out you meeting with Putin is “bad” as you’re going out of the window…
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good: everyone agrees with me and does what I want.
Bad: anything else.Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The only pressure he’s applying is to his depends
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
🌅
sundray@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
LOL, literally doesn’t know where he is.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Alaska
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Alaska myself
sundray@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
USA.