https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/politics/greenland-donald-trump-denmark/index.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4324501&forum_id=2#38696656)

It's only a 180 vacation destination and accounts for ~10% of US oil production.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4324501&forum_id=2#38696684)

I've seen data that shows that for every $1 of taxpayer investment that AK receives we get back about $1.35.

Also it has one of the lowest percentages of population on SNAP/EBT.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4324501&forum_id=2#38696726)

Here's the treaty: https://www.bartleby.com/43/43.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4324501&forum_id=2#38697825)

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4324544&mc=17&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4324501&forum_id=2#38697751)

"CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correctly state the history of US land purchases."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4324501&forum_id=2#38697853)

It didn't "[go] down as "Seward's Folly" in the history books".

It was called Seward's Folly *AT THE TIME*. Today, we only remember that phrase to point how fucking stupid those early critics were

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4324501&forum_id=2#38697959)

Many Americans believed in 1867 that the purchase process had been corrupt,[14] but W. H. Dall in 1872 wrote that "...there can be no doubt that the feelings of a majority of the citizens of the United States are in favor of it..." while referring to purchasing the territories of Russia in America.[17] The notion that the purchase was unpopular among Americans is, a scholar wrote 120 years later, "one of the strongest historical myths in American history. It persists despite conclusive evidence to the contrary, and the efforts of the best historians to dispel it"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4324501&forum_id=2#38698494)