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In 1867, the United States
made a bold move by purchasing the vast territory of Alaska from Russia 
for $7.2 million, which equated to about 2 cents per acre. This historic deal, known as the Alaska Purchase or Seward's Folly, was spearheaded by U.S. Secretary of State William Seward. Despite the initial skepticism and ridicule, the Alaska Purchase would prove to be a wise investment, as the state's vast natural resources, including oil, gold, and more, would make it worth well over $500 billion today 
The mid-19th century was a time of significant territorial expansion for the United States. The country had recently acquired vast amounts of land through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Mexican-American War in 1848. In 1867, the U.S. government saw an opportunity to further expand its territory when Russia expressed interest in selling its Alaskan territory.
The negotiations for the Alaska Purchase were led by U.S. Secretary of State William Seward
. Seward was a strong proponent of American expansion and believed that acquiring Alaska would strengthen the U.S. position in the Pacific region. Despite facing considerable opposition and criticism from the public, who thought the deal was a waste of money and resources, Seward managed to secure the purchase of Alaska for $7.2 million.
The Alaska Purchase was initially met with widespread skepticism and ridicule. Many people, including some members of Congress, believed that the U.S. had made a foolish investment in a barren, frozen wasteland. The deal was derisively referred to as "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox."
However, as time passed, the true value of the Alaska Purchase began to emerge. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gold and other valuable resources were discovered in Alaska, leading to a gold rush and increased economic activity in the region. In the 20th century, the discovery of oil in Alaska further solidified the territory's value.
Today, the state of Alaska is recognized as a significant contributor to the U.S. economy, with its vast natural resources playing a major role in its success. The oil industry in Alaska, centered around the Prudhoe Bay oil field and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, generates substantial revenue for the state and the country. In addition to oil, Alaska's abundant natural resources include gold, timber, and fish, which contribute to the state's economy and overall worth.
The Alaska Purchase of 1867, once considered a foolish and wasteful investment, has proven to be a valuable addition to the United States. Despite the initial skepticism and ridicule, the foresight of Secretary of State William Seward has led to the acquisition of a territory rich in natural resources, including oil, gold, and more. Today, Alaska's estimated worth of over $500 billion.
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Wow, you must be a JP fan.
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is it really worth "only" 500 bil
No one could ever buy it for so little
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!historychads
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I don't know if it's ever been proven but it's been speculated that Seward had informally promised to buy Alaska during the Russian-America alliance in the Civil War that kept Britain and France from intervening.
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There was also the fear that Ruskies might lose Alaska to the bongs
so they considered selling it long before, rather make a quick buck 
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it'll be even more important once the northwest passage grows in usage
russia would have lost this territory a long time ago to the brits if they didnt sell land they could never protect
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he maybe should have done this before he showed the world his military isn't shit by failing to take over ukraine.
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You don't understand! NATO(the great satan) is throwing everything they have at Russia! 2 more weeks!
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This how cope looks like
https://twitter.com/statedept/status/1749091984676176023
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Where's the cope?
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Don't you know Ukraine lost 3 villages just this week ? Basically more villages than spring counteroffensive that cost 233 billions liberated
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Ukraine basically has as much shit as the United States could marshal in a direct military confrontation with Russia. We are not able to keep pace with munitions expenditure because of how complex they've become, and when a weapon system gets destroyed they take a very long time to replace - again because of their complexity.
https://www.ausa.org/news/csis-warns-ammunition-shortages
We build a military and an arsenal that could do Gulf War I indefinitely, but as soon as the enemy has its own production capacity and opts for volume we actually aren't very competitive. And with technologies like passive radars and other means of detection, even our stealth advantage is at risk. Stealth bombers just become B52s, with massively smaller payloads and astronomical costs of repair and replacement.
With passive radar - even if your stealth aircraft aren't detected, there's no way to know where that radar is located. So SEAD, which we rely on for air superiority, is gone.
Add to this our recruiting problems, and the fact that your combat arms units are now diluted with women (a lot now, actually) and
s - you're not looking at the advantaged Army that you had in 1990. I have friends still in the infantry right now, from the good ol' days. The American infantry is a shadow of itself from even five years ago. Lots of r-slurred 18 year old chicks who thought they would be GI Jane, and now they're just fat and sad trying to ride out their contract. Dragging down standards, lowering expectations, and slowing the boys down - and if you notice that out loud, that's a civil rights violation.
All of this assumes that the United States even has the will to resist anymore. Anything America does now beyond sending gibs to failing states is guaranteed to be met with TikTok-driven riots regardless of actual facts. TikTok propaganda managed to get 19 year old middle class white girls to cheer the murder of infants because of an obscure event 70 years ago they hadn't heard of before some rando broad with giant glasses 'educated' them on the shitter.
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Everything else is just well our 2 days military operation turned into a neverending war but that's a good thing because ...
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thats not how it works at all
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The point is after pumping so much money Ukraine is still heading to a L and now it's dragging the whole collective west with it and will set end of unipolar world. Russia already kicked frogs out of Africa and Iran is now daily bombing burger bases in Iraq because knows US won't do shit same with Yamen and soon with Taiwan
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Here is the thing you dont understand because you are a (fake) Europoor incel living in a 30 square meter dorm room with no concept of how people in real countries live: there are trillions more where that came from, and killing Russoids is always worth it. That was the entire lesson from the Cold War.
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So what you're telling me is that the west has fallen? There's only one solution to this travesty.
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This is my favourite thing about slavshitters, you're all so used to the trench warfare meat grinder that you think this sounds impressive to a normal person
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Normal person would had some education and realised that this conflict is un winnable for the west just like all those Middle East and Muslim countries. But wait we just lost in Afghanistan but this time for real we won't lose against a country with nukes that 100% is going to use those.
So as Zelenskyy told today, give him money or he won't mobilise new soldiers.
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21 days to Baghdad what? Learn the difference between winning a war and creating a stable state afterwards ESLfriend
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It's not about Ukraine winning, the west doesn't actually care about Ukraine. We spent less than 10% of our yearly military budget in exchange for 300k dead ruskies and getting all of Europe to hate Russia again. Russia could take Kiev tomorrow and they'd still be a laughing stock.
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Alright smart guy. Putin should come and take Alaska then.
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The Embassy in Kabul account posted the gay pride flag as the country was falling to the Taliban.
I hate State employees only slightly less than I hate j*urnalists.
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Manages to beat
If you calling capturing a 400 people village “beating”
Anyway you probably didn't know but Ukraine lost today 50km^2
They also lost over 50% that they captured
So amazing investment
Gave Ukraine couple of months acting though and back to losing
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How come the tens of thousands of comments you've left defending a shithole country that you don't even live in haven't resulted in you learning basic English? Inb4 "I actually am are to speak 5 different language, how many is u speak ?"
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Hhhhhm perhaps I like to write in that style ?
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No you don't, you just type like that because you're stupid lol. Just because your entire existence is an elaborate joke played by God doesn't mean your there's some hidden reason behind your r-sluration
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Is that your monologue with your mirror or something ?
Because it's kinda strange that you want to project that to a guy who finished English business economics class and now studies in English at university.
Also how do you feel that I am 6'6 at university and you ain't ? Kinda ironic that you call my entire existence a joke when you are a subhuman compared to me, would be stupid to disagree with it, you agree ?
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English business economics class! Wow!
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You might be an r-slur, but that still makes you 100x smarter than Salvador
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2 more weeks bro
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It doesn't matter. War has changed, you legit can't annex anymore due to globalization.
It's an utterly pointless war with no winners no matter how many kms are claimed. Even if Russia took it all, it's another Iraq but worse.
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Muslims are a bit different you can see it even with refugees since they are sending men and not women to be refugees. It's also proven to be a smarter move since when women enters western country she forgets about her og country and tradition she just becomes another western women and that's not in positive sense since she will have similar to white women fertility rate.
Other effect of it is that Ukraine has no reproduction now so there won't be any Iraq. Ukraine should had just agreed no nato then bringing it to till Russia wipes out all their able men and repopulate Ukraine with central Asian
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Ain't gonna turn out in Russias favor. I don't give a darn about Ukraine and it's perfect if they all end up in a grave, but it's not gonna profit Russia in anyway.
Prepare for an Oreo/banana youth league to enter politics and ruin everything.
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NOOO YOU CAN'T HAVE ALLIES IN WAR THATS LITERALLY CHEATING WTF DUDE
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Allies that promised to be with you till the end then till they can ?
Where did I seen such allies, going to ask South Vietnam if they know them
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What point are you trying to prove?
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Duno 233billions for 400 people village is kinda bad investment
Also Ukraine lost today 50 km^2 and this week probably around 100 km^2
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"Post the picture vatnik!"
Sigh "here you go the 1 picture of Leopard is Kill"
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At this point I'm convinced he's doing a bit
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I figured the same awhile ago. In this thread alone, he's crowing over 50 square kilometers gained by Russia. At that rate it will take the 'super' power 6 years to take HALF of Ukraine. Dramatards can't be that delusional, right?
Have to give him props for persistence. He posts bait threads 3 times a day with no takers, so I say let him have this one.
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You can tell it's not bait because when there's really bad news for Russia he gets mad and leaves. The Wagner coup thing would have been the perfect time to troll as a zigger but instead he disappeared for a week until it became clear that the hot dog vendor wasn't going to occupy Moscow.
He also has a half dozen accounts because he gets hopping mad over awards, as though his posts aren't already unreadable.
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Wasn't that tank supposed to create this
?But it couldn't capture a single city
So don't worry Ukraine win soon but first you must give Ukraine another 100 billions or Zelenskyy won't mobilise new soldier, he need 500k of those and he need also that you deport some from western countries since not enough men are left in Ukraine
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https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/18y8z9s/russian_armored_convoy_obliterated_while_trying?sort=controversial
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Oh Russian captured that village, so what's your point ?
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What's even your argument here? Russia's adverseraries can pool together more resources so it isn't fair?
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I imagine that Ukraine outspent russia somehow and still lost all the territory russia intended to take.
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found the incel
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Tbh i just assume amerikkka is lying about everything all the time so ukraine actually lost despite whatever cnn says
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Well k-pop missiles are hitting khohols cities but western one won't so how is Ukraine going to win ?
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what are you saying here? that russia HASN'T failed to take over ukraine?
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Oh yes Russian failed to take Ukraine because the war is over… ah nope just the spring counteroffensive that cost 233billions and was just able to capture a 400 people village is over
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dude. come on. it's mighty super power russia. we are in like year 3 of them failing to take over tiny weak neighboring ukraine.
don't pretend this has been anything but an embarrassment and a failure for russia.
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I told you you suck at economy you viewing things at angles you want. West spend 233 billions to prepare spring counteroffensive that captured in 6 months 370km^2 that spring counteroffensive used western gears and fresh soldiers without soviet background that went through nato training. Ukraine is now out of all kind of ammo, at start of the year patriot wasn't able to save multiple factories and today Ukraine lost 50km^2 that's like 1/7 of what they were able to capture with 233 billion and this week around 100km^2.
This conflict started with Biden telling all the civilised world will make sure Ukraine will win and he will destroy Russian economy.
Today US is not giving money to Ukraine EU also ain't giving.
To the rest of the world it's clear sign that civilised world can't stop Russia and it was from start obvious that Russia was going to win this conflict because they are ready to burn the earth for it and nobody in the west wants to die for Ukraine was yet homosexual enough thinking with some sanctions they are going to stop Russia.
It's a defeat for civilised world and burgers world polizei.
World seen all the propaganda about Russian are out of ammo, Russian won't be able to build anything, Russian economy is dying from sanctions and nothing of that happened and is an L to western world order.
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Why do vatnigs think 233bil is a lot of money lmao
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It's not the full sum, I doubt many here know what's a multiplicator and explicit cost are. So it's just easier to show that graph. Just on rough estimates that conflict cost 2 trillion to the world economy in 2022 and nobody wants to do legit calculations or say how much it cost in 2023.
Do you think if Ukraine spring counteroffensive was successful would Hamas and co started their party ?
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Neighbor russia is 2 years into a war they started with an african tier nation they border lmao.
The west has spent basically nothing on this, which makes it even more hilarious.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the actual number was lower. Most of the stuff we send Ukraine would cost money to dispose of anyway (missiles, ammo, vehicles, etc)
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If only you could put that energy into your relationships
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that's a lot of words to say "nuh uh them being unable to beat ukraine isn't actually a failure i swear"
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Well can't cope like you while looking how US can't save its b-word again. US gov of Afghanistan, South Vietnam and now Ukraine. Keep it going
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sure thing, sport.
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now imagine what would happen if that number said 773 billion
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Nothing because they're not enough ammo.
Western ammo production is lower than Russian
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I scratch my bare butthole with $233Bn.
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We would have won if it wasn't for those pesky boxers giving their gloves to that toddler!!
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Why u coping ? Russia will win so everyone will start asking why west even joined that conflict and turned it into western world vs southern world
That resulted in west losing its influence.
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Weird, there's no figure for the Russian donations to Ukraine. The thousands of vehicles and tons of supplies left behind after the Northern
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Anyday now the "strongest tank in the world", the T-90M, will obliterate all the evil western
gay weaponry
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I fyou think about it, this is literally the "heh, you made me use 1% of my power. Not bad." meme
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How many billions are ending up in Zelensky's personal pocket?
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He also saving money on suits
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Thos should
be higher
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