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?

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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...

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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.

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Alaska was sold to US because Russia couldn't protect it from Brits anyway.