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So what if Putin says he wants Alaska back?
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Posted on 03/22/2014 11:02:22 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Just wondering what would happen....never say never, right? How tepid would the USA react?

What if Putin said he just wanted "this island" of Alaska's, or "that small region"?

He might say Peter the Great did not represent the will of the Russian people when he sold the land to William Seward on behalf of the United States....

What would the nation do? What would the regime do? What would you do?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alaska; crimea; gimme; pacifism; putin; russia; ukraine; viktoryanukovich; yuliatymoshenko
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I post this in chat...because I am wondering.

I don't think Putin would do this...frankly, as weak as I think Team Obama is, THIS would be enough to push them into military action.

Thoughts?

1 posted on 03/22/2014 11:02:22 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

I see another Absolut Vodka ad coming up.


2 posted on 03/22/2014 11:03:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: SoFloFreeper

We give him Vermont and call it square.


3 posted on 03/22/2014 11:04:27 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Alaska is probably promised to whoever owns our debt. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that our nature resources are used as collateral.


4 posted on 03/22/2014 11:05:11 AM PDT by moviefan8
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To: SoFloFreeper

If Obama becomes any more tyrannical, Alaska would vote for secession. haha


5 posted on 03/22/2014 11:05:50 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: SoFloFreeper

Palin would kick his ass back to the Stone Age.


6 posted on 03/22/2014 11:06:08 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Then he’ll ask for Northern California back as well...


7 posted on 03/22/2014 11:06:29 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I would imagine the 600,000 residents of Alaska might have something to say about that.


8 posted on 03/22/2014 11:06:50 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Don't tell me, I'll tell you.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I emailed that question to my rep. the other day. I await her answer.
Glad to see there are others thinking the same.


9 posted on 03/22/2014 11:06:51 AM PDT by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

You are probably correct. Even this loser of a president might draw the line there, but I think Putin might try anyway short of military action just to distract and preoccupy us.

I wonder if Obama is regretting his “Flexibility after the election” promise he made the Russians.

At some point even a pacifist might object to an invasion...


10 posted on 03/22/2014 11:07:24 AM PDT by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’d be a lot more concerned about Mexico taking the southwest back. Its already overrun.


11 posted on 03/22/2014 11:08:00 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Oh I’m not to sure about that. Probably O’bummer doesn’t even know where Alaska is and would probably think it’s another country so he will give it up gladly since they did not vote for him.


12 posted on 03/22/2014 11:08:14 AM PDT by Vinylly (?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

No, not Alaska, we counter with Chicago.


13 posted on 03/22/2014 11:08:35 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Vendome
Then he’ll ask for Northern California back as well...

He'll no doubt demand Russian Hill back, at least.

14 posted on 03/22/2014 11:08:48 AM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Mac daddy will reply in the most serious way by drawing and extra wide red line and follow it up with many, many, many more red lines. There tht will show them just how mad he really, really is and then he will go on another $250,000,000.00 tax payer vacation.


15 posted on 03/22/2014 11:08:52 AM PDT by chiefqc
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To: dainbramaged

Some it would seem want to go to Russia, but they could be sleeper cells...

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/alaska-back-russia/SFG1ppfN


16 posted on 03/22/2014 11:11:17 AM PDT by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Call in all WWII debt from Russia. When Putin says, “But you forgave those WWII loans immediately after the war!” Respond by saying, “That was yesterday, today is today. Just as the sale of Alaska was yesterday.”


17 posted on 03/22/2014 11:11:28 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (What we need is to sucker the fedthugs into a "Tiananmen Square"-like incident on the National Mall!)
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To: smokingfrog

BTTT!


18 posted on 03/22/2014 11:11:53 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Our politicians have been preserving ANWAR for someone, and it ain’t the caribou.

I believe there’s a level or coordination between Washington and Moscow that we can’t even fathom.


19 posted on 03/22/2014 11:12:17 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (If you don't stand up, you don't stand a chance.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If he wants it , now is the time to just take it. Obummer wont do a thing. Of course he has to watch out for Sarah Palin, she may just kick his macho ass.


20 posted on 03/22/2014 11:12:22 AM PDT by fish hawk (no tyrant can remain in power without the consent and cooperation of his victims.)
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