Fall out from Ukraine war.

[Brigadier]

Check for the Purchase of Alaska (1868)

EnlargeDownload Link Citation: Cancelled check in the amount of $7.2 million, for the purchase of Alaska, issued August 1, 1868; Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury; Record Group 217; National Archives. The Russian exchange copy of the Treaty of Cession, March...

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I couldn't find a "buy back" clause or reference to a leasehold.

It was a comment on Trump's "unmatched" negotiation skills

 

[Vinty]

Putin welcomed his 'dear friend' Mr. Modi recently in Russia and i'm guessing he'd like a few more million barrels of oil to keep his war machine running.

That is why the US/EU are going to lose the war in Ukraine.
The Europeans haven't come to terms with the fact that the world has changed.
If they want to become a global power again, they need to have Russia as a partner and not an enemy.

 

[Odds]

That is why the US/EU are going to lose the war in Ukraine.
The Europeans haven't come to terms with the fact that the world has changed.
If they want to become a global power again, they need to have Russia as a partner and not an enemy.

Putin will curry favour with anyone who can help dig him out the vindaloo he's in.

 

[IT Minion]

That is why the US/EU are going to lose the war in Ukraine.
The Europeans haven't come to terms with the fact that the world has changed.
If they want to become a global power again, they need to have Russia as a partner and not an enemy.

Partnering with Russia is like partnering with flesh eating bacteria.

You either need to be remote so the infection can't spread or big/dangerous enough that they can't gobble you up. Which is why all Russia's neighbours have run to join NATO

 

[securespark]

I'd rather feed my scrotum through the mincer than pally up with Vlad...

 

[Vinty]

Partnering with Russia is like partnering with flesh eating bacteria.

Didn't stop Britain partnering with Russia in 2 World wars.

 

[Vinty]

I'd rather feed my scrotum through the mincer than pally up with Vlad...

Chamberlain thought the same thing when offered a partnership by Russia to take out Hitler.
Churchhill on the other hand couldn't wait to do a deal with Stalin.

 

[IT Minion]

Didn't stop Britain partnering with Russia in 2 World wars.

... why do the Pro Russian faction always go back to WW2 and ignore everything since?

 

[noseall]

... why do the Pro Russian faction always go back to WW2 and ignore everything since?

Because it takes the deaths of 60 million people before considering bringing the duplicitous scoundrels on board.