The United States and Russia are only 2.4 miles apart via the Bering Strait

The international dateline separates the two countries by 21 hours.

When it's midnight Sunday in the U.S. (12am), it's 9pm Monday night in Russia.

I've always thought Alaska should belong to Canada.

I can see Russia from my house!

Dire needs

Any idiot learned this in school.

Which is why after the Trump meeting with Putin, there was open chatter on Putin TV about how Alaska should be returned to Russia.

Russia and the US are close friends and allies now so this is not a problem OP.

I'll never stop making fun of the post-Trump, post-Boomer motherfuckers who think this shit is normal.

If you're a Gen X, Millennial, Gen Z Trump voter?

Your life is about to get a whole lot more horrible in a decade.

I'm sure it just kills Putin to know that Imperial Russia sold Alaska for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million in 2023). Just think, he could be president of Russian-North America.

[quote]In the winter, the water freezes and forms a land bridge where you could walk across to each country, but perhaps you shouldn't.

That was how the Native Americans got here, tens of thousands of years ago.

Can someone explain to this non-American what was so controversial about Sarah Palin’s remark?

r12 She came across as a dumb cunt. It was right after McCain picked her as a running mate, and the entire nation was just like "wow, what a fucking dumb cunt!"

R12 Sarah Palin never said that. During the campaign, she made some ridiculous remark that she would be great in foreign policy dealing with Russia since she was the governor of a state right next to Russia, implying she was quite versed in the subject.

Tina Fey then killed it on SNL with that line making fun of her.

If Alaska was a blue state, Trump would give it to Russia. (Russia sold Alaska to the U.S., in 1867, for $7.2 million dollars.)

Off topic - Senator Lisa Murkowski is a thoroughgoing, spineless cunt.

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