| Robert_Downey_Jr. said: The US owned Alaska when the name was changed and we own it now. If the Alaskans wanted to keep it the other name they should have fought harder to keep their lands in the first place. Losers in war don't get rights like that. Obama never wants to make anyone feel like a loser though boo hoo |
Holy hell that is seriously an imperialism outlook. You would have gotten along joyously during the days of Manifest Destiny and such. It's kind of out there in 2015 though. The fact is, Alaska was overwhelmed by European powers first, with Russia ultimately claiming it as theirs and selling it to the US, which, by then, we were already more than okay with the idea of buying stolen land. I mean, how is a small population supposed to cope when a large population rains down on them with weaponry they've never seen before? When you're still hunting with handcrafted weaponry, and then someone jumps off a ship with forged guns, things aren't exactly going to go well. It's unfair to say "you were outmanned and outgunned, but you really should have fought harder if you cared".
"But we owned Alaska then and we do now!" And? It isn't as if our acquisition was justified. We just took Russia at their word when they said it was their land, bought it, shipped people in, and took over.
