Joke About Sale of Alaska Hits a Nerve in Russia

Cybercast News Service ^ | November 28, 2005 | Sergei Blagov

[airborne]

Pearlstein wrote that Alaskans, free from the political grip of environmentalists, would finally be able to drill and fish to their heart's content.

Well, he's got a point!

[philsfan24]

can we at least sell them anwr so at least someone can extract oil from it?

[BenLurkin]

Does Russia even have one trillion dollars?

[clarissaexplainsitall]

I didn't know the Russians were sensitive about the loss of Alaska. Talk about shoppers remorse, but in reverse!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Why don't we just threaten to drill down to the center of the earth unless they send us ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

[Wiz]

I'm glad US bought Alaska from Russia at a reasonable price, considering the following cold war, and dictator Putin ruling the country today. I wish they would have sold some islands near the mainland as well.

[Wiz]

ping

[Polyxene]

Ted Stevens would be deeply saddened -- think of all of the pork he's taken back to Alaska, only to be given to the Russkies!

[MARKUSPRIME]

Not going to happen Alaska is and always will be a US state.

[Thunder90]

You meen Communist dictator Putin...

[Selective Fire]

What makes more sense is if America would buy Canada, instead.

[Grzegorz 246]

Thanks.

[Grzegorz 246]

They would have one trillion If sold the whole Moscow.

[Cowboy Bob]

A couple of years ago, Zhirinovsky was pushing the story that Russia didn't sell Alaska to the US, but rather leased it for 100 years. With the 100 years being over, Zhirinovsky was now demanding that the US give it back.

I wonder if he's still pushing that idea...

[America's Resolve]

United States should sell Alaska back to Russia for $1 trillion.

The hell with this. Let's buy Siberia from them for $1 trillion! The ChiComs are just gonna take it for nothing anyways. They'll outbreed the russians out of it.

[MARKUSPRIME]

Let them try and take it we bought the bloody land fair and sqaure. They should be prepared for full scale nuclear war if they invaded alaska.

[longtermmemmory]

don't laugh, the UN will demand the alaska's return to help break up the USA as "too big".

[thackney]

Let's buy Siberia from them for $1 trillion!

Why? So the environmentalist can stop drilling there also?

[twinself]

The ChiComs are just gonna take it for nothing anyways.

Sad but true. So it'd a chance for Russians to make a buck again, as in case of deals with Iran.