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Posted on 03/03/2014 6:39:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin’s prescient assertion in 2008 that electing Barack Obama would embolden Russia to take on sovereign countries like Ukraine certainly seems to have been on the mark. Ironically, Tina Fey’s parody on "Saturday Night Live", taken for the truth about Palin exclaiming that she can see Russia from her house may also come true. I just hope we don't all wind up seeing Russia from our window.
After the events in Ukraine this past week followed by President Obama’s lackadaisical response at a press conference Saturday and Palin’s original remark that Russia can be seen from “land here in Alaska,” a 2012 article from The Voice of Russia reads a bit more ominously.
Sergei Sayenko writes:
…the purchase of Alaska has been surrounded by numerous rumors and myths. Some say that the US did not pay Russia in full; others insist that Alaska was not sold but was leased for 99 years. There is also a belief that the purchase treaty had been repeatedly violated, so it can be contested these days. The purchase of Alaska once inspired a popular Russian pop-rock band Lyube to compose a humorous song called ‘Don`t be a fool, America, give us Alaska back’. The song reflects Russia`s worries about Alaska, although the text has some historical inaccuracies.
…It must be mentioned, however, that at the time when the deal was signed, many Russians regretted that Alaska was no longer theirs.
…In the 20th century large oil and gas fields worth hundreds of millions of dollars were discovered in Alaska. Since then the region has turned into an actively developing US state with the highest per-capita GDP in the nation....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
~ Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978) US Vice-President, US Senator (D-MN) Source: "Know Your Lawmakers," Guns magazine, February 1960, p.6
But according to snl, Sarah Palin was worse for juan mclame than viet nam. Series, it was in their fake news skit.
MADE ME SICK.
They also took a cheap shot at GWB.
If Obama won’t put up a fight for Alaska, us Albertans will. We don’t want Russians this close to us either.
Let’s talk realistically here, one woman isn’t going to do much vs an invasion.
We have issues we should be focusing on, such as the ongoing attempt to grab firearms etc.
Whether or not anyone gets invaded is secondary, because if they succeed in grabbing guns, it won’t matter if invasion happens because we’ll all already be slaves.
Alaska might—if hard pressed, break away from the USA and start the Republic of Alaska, with Putin to back their independence and trade. I could see Sarah Palin out on a moose hunt with Vlad Putin. Maybe Palin could be the First president of an independent Alaska?
Russia doesn’t need Alaska. They already have vast territory and resources in Siberia and other areas that they have scarcely made a dent in. Of course, they might want Alaska, but they won’t get it and don’t need it.
Sometimes I wonder if some day the US might find itself ceding vast mineral rights and other rights in Alaska and elsewhere to settle debts with foreign nations.
Russia would simply annex it, whether or not Putin was the leader.
Why would we? Debt repudiation is always an option. So is the seizure of foreign-owned American assets. The is what other countries have been doing for a while now - Americans debt and stock holders of foreign assets have gotten the short end of the stick for decades. Here's some background on debt repudiation:
Repudiation of State Debts was the subject of agitated discussion in the United States and abroad during the 1840s and the 1870s. In the 1830s various American states incurred heavy debts in the construction of canals and railroads and in the creation of banks. Frequently, in authorizing these loans, the faith of the state was pledged for the payment of the interest and the redemption of the principal. In many cases the laws specified that the bonds should not be sold below par. In negotiating these loans, authorized agents of the states violated the state statutes, and American bankers aided and abetted them. Foreign investors bought these securities with avidity because of the guaranty of the states, the high rate of interest they carried, the high standing of the national credit, and the confidence of foreign bankers in the Bank of the United States. When the American financial structure collapsed in the panic of 1837, European bankers tactlessly suggested that the U.S. government assume the state debts. Whatever merit the scheme might have possessed lost out to the hostility created by its supposedly foreign origin and the scramble for votes in the presidential election of 1840.
Between 1841 and 1842 eight states and one territory defaulted on their interest payments. There were many reasons for the growth of repudiation sentiment at this time. The sneers and jeers of the foreign press at American integrity fanned the flames of national prejudices while the universal indebtedness gave an impetus to the movement in favor of repudiation. Repudiation resulted from a series or combination of forces: speculative mania, ignorance of sound banking, a ruinous depression, blatantly demagogic leadership, and the stupidity of the bondholders in refusing to consider propositions that might have resulted in partial payments of their holdings. Although the meager resources of the American people at that time made it impossible for them to meet their obligations when they fell due, an inability to pay was no justification for refusal to pay.
The second attack of state repudiation came with the funding of the state debts incurred during the Reconstruction era. Governments that were not representative of the southern states issued these bonds. Foreign investors received warnings not to purchase them. The forced repudiation of the Confederate war debts by the Fourteenth Amendment strengthened the southerners' opposition to the payment of the "bayonet bonds," especially since "conquerors of the north" held a large proportion of these securities. The ravages of the Civil War, the misrule of the Reconstruction period, and the hard times following the panic of 1873 increased the heavy burdens of the southern people; but in no case were the debts scaled or repudiated until it was apparently impossible to discharge them.
The Eleventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prevented foreign creditors from seeking redress. In December 1933, Monaco, which possessed some repudiated Mississippi bonds, asked to bring suit in the U.S. Supreme Court against the state of Mississippi, but on 21 May 1934 the Court unanimously held that Monaco could not sue Mississippi.
“Barry IS the modern King Midas in reverse turning Gold Into LEAD since 2009!”
Bath House Barry is more King Merde than King Plumbus.
If they do then this is the time to act. They could just march right in and take it. Unopposed.
Oui! Indeed he is!
So...Russia takes Alaska...the President signs Marshall Law into effect...no elections are allowed...they get to change the country into how they want it, in order to keep us safe, of course....
OK..OK..I’ll take off the tinfoil hat now.
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Merkel has been hiding behind her pinko foreign minister on the Ukraine issue. We might as well shut down NATO. It’s over.
Not so fast! Do a web search with EPA and Riverton, Wyoming as key words.
Are you serious?
Putin and Palin on a moose hunt? Do you have any clue who Putin is and how he operates?
Putin will come back from that moose hunt owning Alaska. Palin will never be seen again.
Stop romanticizing about putin. This is how we ended up with that thing in the white hut. OTOH, if you like putin so much, move to russia.
Another four-yeer term for the Great Usurper and Putie’s troops may march into the Aleutians to protect the Inuit.
Sarah Playin will definitely have something to say about it!
Methinks that Obama would hand Alaska back to the Rooskis just to rid himself of Sarah Palin.
So is attacking an American embassy. You saw what we did about that when it happened. Of course, even the LoFo MoFo’s would recognize, dimly, that Russia attacking Alaska was a bad thing, sorta kinda.
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