Why doesn't Russia return the Kuril islands to Japan after giving Alaska to the US for free?
Why doesn't Russia return the Kuril islands to Japan after giving Alaska to the US for free?
the red arrow doesn't convince me
We like some americans and dislike most japs, sorry
They sold it
They were afraid they would lose it in a war against britain since they didn't have the naval power to contest us at sea and hold a non-contiguous piece of land
Kurils have always been Russian and only very briefly occupied by Japanese military
>for free
we paid a lot of money for that though after years of negotiations
Was it worth it?
Dumb disputes been going on for over 76 years with little to no development and probably will remain that way for much longer
Yes, Japanese don't know how to lose gracefully
incredibly worth it by every measure
I hope we don't ruin it by letting oil companies fuck up the enviornment
That's why they were nuked. They would rather die than surrender territory, unless of course that country is the United States because they have stockholm syndrome and want Big American Cock
yes, perhaps not at the time but now in retrospect it was basically a steal.
I wish we had na territory, eastern europe and asia are so fucking cringe...
Why don’t you guys just move to the north pole
why would we give it back?
so US makes new base?
go conquer Okinawa back first
Not the southern kurils fottuto mongoloide ritardato
They’re a self defense force anyway so conquest is out of the question
Give North Slope to Brazil instead. We need a ski resort
this
>North Slope
what is North Slope?
Why Russia gave you such big area???
tons of oil from there.
Very worth it, though it was largely mocked at the time.
Alaska was sold to US because Russia couldn't protect it from Brits anyway.