Adjusted for inflation, Russia sold Alaska for 120 million dollars, or roughly the cost of one big budget movie.
Adjusted for inflation, Russia sold Alaska for 120 million dollars, or roughly the cost of one big budget movie
Lucas Gutierrez
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Liam Brown
Do not let that confuse you. Alaska has not been beneficial for the US
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Gavin Thomas
>Alaska has not been beneficial for the US
It is for geopolitics
Samuel Lopez
but alaska is comfy
t. alaskan
Daniel Clark
>a whole bunch of nothing that was only draining the Tzar's coffers was sold for peanuts
You don't say?
Connor Edwards
>petroleum
>uranium
you don't say
Connor Price
He is talking about the money. And he acts like that was a good deal for the burgers from the economical point of view.
Juan Hernandez
oil tho
Nolan Bailey
>petroil
>ur anus
>XIX century
Hans, please
Dominic Wood
That border with canada in the bottom is ugly as fuck.
Dominic Rogers
having land of this size there's always a chance of finding resources, that's what I meant. Just give it away is stupid
Ethan Wilson
The main resource in 21 century is educated humans not dirt
Jaxson Martin
so this is russia's problem. I see
Xavier Wood
>30 years after Russia sells America Alaska, a gold rush starts
James Rivera
>implying gold rush was a good thing
Logan Murphy
tell that the Saudis
Bentley Cox
You sound like Eike Batista. Potential resources or not, it was expensive to main and right next to Britain, selling it to the US was a good deal. for fucks sake, I don't even think ruskies had a port in the far east back then, let alone a finished trans siberian railway
so what?
Angel Evans
I don't want to be allah akbared
Wyatt Diaz
A single claim in Eldorado Creek held $180 million current USD
Noah Lewis
Tsar's governemnt was afraid that US can start a war for Alaska. It was absolutely impossible to defend it. Even in 1904 with railroad to Far East already built we couldn't fight properly with japs because of the distance between European part and Vladivostok. And look where is Vladivostok and where is Alaska.
So basically we sold it in order not to lose it for free in war with USA.
Nathaniel Bennett
Oliver Ramirez
did you read this Why do you keep bragging about the deal that was, in fact, miserable for you? YOU pay for Alaska with your taxes, how can you be happy about that?
Levi Taylor
Also it's not like Modern Russia and the US has large stock of these ressources
Alexander Reed
>how can you be happy about that?
I'm in a nation of fellow Americans, as much as I'd prefer the Fed fuck off I can't ignore that it's better to have a more well rounded nation in development than poorly maintained shithole states and two or three states with actual development
Jordan Long
It really is.