Posted on 07/04/2025 12:46:45 PM PDT by delta7
Happy 4th, remember our past.
Europe and its ideas are a bigger threat..We bought Alaska for a song from Russia ..
Then tell Russia to stop aiming thousands of nukes at our cities, something the EU is currently not doing
The Russia that helped America in the revolutionary war was the Russia of Tsars and Emperors! Not the Russia of Communists.
Yeah, these Putin tankies are something else.
The Treaty of Friendship and Commerce was actually signed between the United States and France in 1778, not Russia.
Most of your post is BS!!!
Mennonites from Ukraine brought over a hardy strain of wheat to Kansas in the 1880’s that transformed the state into a colossal producer. That led to a boom turning the United States into a major exporter of wheat around the world. During the Cold War, the United States even exported wheat to the Soviet Union.
The sale of Alaska started it on the path to US statehood.
Those are two things I’ll grant that Russia can claim to help shape the United States.
Not the Russia of Communists.
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The Soviet Union collapsed decades ago. Todays Federation of Russia is a parliamentary democracy, well versed in capitalism.
They didn’t do a lot. Maybe gave the British a little diplomatic heartburn. US Revolutionary War ambassador Francis Dana.
Francis Dana in St. Petersburg
American diplomacy during the War for Independence was short on financial and military assets and long on optimism. This was particularly true of Francis Dana’s mission to Russia. In 1781 the Continental Congress sent Francis Dana, John Adams private secretary in Paris, to the Court of Catherine II at St. Petersburg to convince Russia to recognize American independence, sign a commercial treaty, and allow the United States to join the League of Armed Neutrality. Catherine II was the moving force behind the League, which was formed in 1780 to protect the rights of neutrals to trade with belligerents in the war pitting the United States, the Netherlands, Spain, and France against Great Britain. The British were determined to use their naval power to prevent neutrals from trading with Americans or their other enemies. It is a measure of the naiveté of the Congress that it hoped that Catherine would sponsor American membership in her league of neutrals, given that America was one of the principal belligerents. The belief that Russia, which wished to act as a mediator between Britain and the thirteen states, would recognize American independence proved equally unfounded. Dana, lonely and unable to speak French or Russian, spent almost 2 years in St. Petersburg, accomplishing little.
Putin puffers love to praise Russia and post revisionist history.
Name one country that Russia has ever led to true independent freedom since the Czars were overthrown?
News to me.
The only mention of a Russian loan during the Revolution I could find on the Net was in this thread. Grok says ‘No formal treaties or direct aid (like troops or loans) came from Russia, as Catherine avoided antagonizing Britain outright.
Russia wanted us to buy Alaska because it was too far from Moscow to defend and they didn’t want Britain to get it.
The Russian Federation is a sham democracy, with a rubber stamp Duma and governed by a de facto President for Life/dictator who launches unprovoked invasions of his neighbors.
The “capitalism” is crony capitalism run by oligarchs who are well connected to the dictator.
Tell your mom to tell you to tell Tucker to tell The Putin to tell Trump to tell Khamenei to tell Netanyahu to tell Macron to tell Starmer to tell Kaja Kallas to tell Friedrich Merz to tell Lukashenko to tell Ursula von der Leyen to tell Little Zee to surrender.
Piano puffers love to listen to fake Ukrainian propaganda to get a mugasm over Little Zee and his Azov thugs going from “victory” to “victory”.
>>>>Then tell Russia to stop aiming thousands of nukes at our cities, something the EU is currently not doing<<<<
FAT CHANCE.
The EU doesn’t HAVE thousands of nukes to aim at us. The EU itself doesn’t possess any nukes. Two EU member countries, France and the UK, have their own nuclear stockpiles, totaling about 515 operational nuke warheads, and they’re NEVER going to aim them at us.
In addition, we store about 100 nuclear bombs at bases in five NATO member countries within Europe.
Your statement makes no sense whatsoever.
Well said.
When I was in HS (late 1940s), we learned this...
Correct.
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