I posted this as a dig at conspiracy theories but now ...

[BSdetect]

I seriously wonder when Putin might ask for Alaska back.

[dalton99a]

1. Now that the EPA is under control

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[Tech]

2. Maybe we can offer Sarah Palin and he will be happy

[sandensea]

3. Perhaps not directly - but indirectly.

Watch for big oil drilling contracts in Alaska being possibly handed out to Rosneft, Gazprom and/or other big Russian fossil fuel firms.

And I doubt they'll take too many environmental precautions.

[akraven]

4. I don't think he'd get it. We have guts and guns.............

Mostly shotguns so the unusually obnoxious moose runs off. Remember the mama is meaner than the great horned one! Also, I think it would be possible to recruit caribou, wolverines, skunks, and meaner than shit squirrels, attack birds (don't fuck with ravens), wolves, lynx, shrews who'll climb your leg for a bite, some brownies (Kodiak bears), polar bears, black bears, orca, bison, etc. Not to mention sled dogs, and really mean kitties!

I have no doubt His Orangeness might try, but Putin is way smarter than that!

Wrap him in a game net and LOCK HIM UP!

[pecosbob]

5. Putin's biggest single goal currently is to sell Arctic oil and gas to Western oil companies

that is of course aside from disrupting or destroying the neo-liberal democracies of the West. Trillions of dollars, with a 'T'. He doesn't need Alaska.