<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 6:50 AM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Some years ago I heard more than one person speculate that the <br>
USA should buy Siberia. (My reaction: acquire a land border with China?)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Mine: as if Russia would sell. These are places with their own governments, not serfs that can be traded without their permission. Even with someone like Putin in charge, this remains true. The most that the Russian federal government could do would be to kick Siberia out; it couldn't force Siberia to subjugate itself to American law if the Siberians objected. </div></div></div>