Some that come to mind are selling Alaska by Russia and Denmark the virgin Islands to the usa...like wtf...usa literally bought fairly nice territories for nothing!
Why did countries sell off territory? that is so fucking retarded
Isaiah Myers
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Samuel Turner
If I remember correctly, Russia sold Alaska because in a war with Britain, it would be hard to defend from British north America
Nathaniel Lewis
Alaska was a frozen empty shit hole when Russia sold it. No one knew about, or could profitably obtain, its natural resources.
Jayden Miller
debt
Owen Robinson
so fucking what??? you can say the same shit about half of Russia more then half really...shit if they wanted to sell shit why not sell all of Serbia while you are at it...Alaska is a massive amount of land and the Virgin Islands while not huge are a nice territory to own just for the purpose of going on vacation if you own it...plus you can for sure make the Islands profitable and of use even for military use or whatever, the tourism by itself...
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Caleb Young
debt??? what fucking debt did Denmark have? I mean it makes no fucking sense...Denmark could of used the Virgin Islands for sure. And speaking of land they need to reclaim back Scane and sheeet Sweden doesn't deserve it.
Jackson Nelson
Russia never actually owned Alaska
They just said it was theirs and nobody gave a shit about saying otherwise
Ryan Bailey
Selling off land for money is as cucked as you can get you can't put a price on territory!
Cooper Barnes
lol, they should have taken it then instead of selling it they should have took it and used it as a trade post. fucking idiots.
Joseph Jones
Well this was after Europe got wrecked during WW1. Denmark needed the gold.
Jayden Adams
>Alaska
>Virgin Islands
Small time, senpai
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Parker Phillips
??????? Denmark literally wasn't even involved in either wars....it was neutral in both...dafaq u talking about
Camden Gutierrez
WW1 effected their economy significantly
Jace Hughes
Fuck France could have literally held almost all if not all of Canada as well not to mention Detroit and other places...it seems no European nation truly held onto legit colonies overseas...but still though Denmark should annex Sweden imo they are less cucked.
Gavin Kelly
well maybe but still selling should never have been an option that is cucked.
Jason White
Both Alaska and Louisiana would be taken by Britain if they hadn't sold it. Britain was their enemy so they'd rather let the US have it. If you cant understand that you're a complete brainlet.
Chase Hughes
lololol...France could have fought them off just like they did by helping America, it would take too much resources for the Brits to deem it worth fighting for some swamp land in Louisiana if France invested enough, funny enough though France helped America beat the Brits in the Revolutionary war.
Justin Thompson
France wouldn't have been able to fight them off
Ever heard of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars?
Jeremiah Scott
it wasn't really a piece of its territory but rather a some kind of colony russia thought it couldn't hold anyway, i believe france sold louisiana too en.wikipedia.org
Robert Edwards
England had country over Newfoundland until fairly recently