If Alaska decided to secede from the union, what would our weak, pathetic president do in response? Order missile strikes on Anchorage? Send in our weak, pathetic underfunded army featuring women in combat, homosexuals, and heterosexuals worried about being grabbed in the shower by their homosexual superior officers and maybe by K-Nine Corps dogs whose rights are protected by PETA?
Just as the next three Obama presidential years will be a golden opportunity for Vladimir Putin to take over much of the world with impunity, it will also be an ideal period for secessionist movements in the U.S. to reach their goals.
There is not a lot of land there privately owned, but they can sell their land to whoever they want to, including Russia.