<div dir="ltr"><div>Anton Sherwood wrote:<br>
</div><div>"When? Some years ago I heard more than one person speculate that the </div>
<div>USA should buy Siberia. (My reaction: acquire a land border with China?)" <br></div><div><br></div><div>This was over thirty years ago. I'm sure the man is long dead. If Siberia gets purchased by anyone, it will be China! Lol In fact, some futurists speculate that over the next century or so, Siberia will fall under the Chinese sphere of influence and may secede from Russia. <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:50 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2020-10-22 04:42, John Grigg via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
> I grew up in Alaska, and we had a gregarious individual who always had a <br>
> booth at the state fair, where he would promote his organization that <br>
> had the goal of Alaska seceding from America, so it could be its own <br>
> nation. My stepfather would always take some time to argue with the guy, <br>
> by saying that without the American military to protect it, Alaska could <br>
> never stay free from Russia.<br>
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When? 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>
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