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Showing Original Post only (View all)Amid mounting sanctions, Russian lawmaker demands America return Alaska to Russia [View all]
Source: KATV.com
A lawmaker in Russia has demanded the United States return Alaska to Russia as a reparation for American-led sanctions crippling his country's economy following the invasion of Ukraine.
Parliament member Oleg Matveychev made those demands, along with saying he also wanted America to return Fort Ross in California, during an interview on Sunday, The Daily Beast reports. The publication says Matveychev is known as the "Kremlin's spin-doctor."
Read more: https://katv.com/news/nation-world/russian-lawmaker-demands-america-return-alaska-and-pay-reparations-due-to-sanctions-ukraine-oleg-matveychev-kremlin-fort-ross-california-antartic-ocean-economy
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Amid mounting sanctions, Russian lawmaker demands America return Alaska to Russia [View all]
AZLD4Candidate
Mar 2022
OP
Maybe they'd just take Sarah Palin and her house that she can see Russia from?
Ocelot II
Mar 2022
#1
The Russian gave up on settling that region of California, due to groundhogs...
FailureToCommunicate
Mar 2022
#9
We love our Fort Ross. Schools like to take their students there for week long reenactment
msfiddlestix
Mar 2022
#45
Thanks for letting us know that the sanctions are having a serious effect. N/T
TeamProg
Mar 2022
#14
Repeat AZLD4Candidate's original response for all to see...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Stuart G
Mar 2022
#26
And..............Let's have a vote if those people want to be part of the U.S.A...Oh...I had better
Stuart G
Mar 2022
#29
But you have to also take Sarah and her abstinence-free daughter in the deal.
keithbvadu2
Mar 2022
#30
Didn't they also bring the sea otter close to extinction by hunting them? n/t
AntiFascist
Mar 2022
#66
We paid the equivalent of over $133 million in 2020 dollars ... add 5% interest for 155 years ...
eppur_se_muova
Mar 2022
#48
Germany, Poland, the the Baltics, and Ukraine will get nuclear missiles lobbed at them.
AZLD4Candidate
Mar 2022
#53
That's exactly how Putin wants to frame this: "the West wants to destroy Russia"...
AntiFascist
Mar 2022
#67
OK, but then THEY need to give it back to the Inuit, Athabaskans, Tglingit, etc. etc.
Kashkakat v.2.0
Mar 2022
#69