Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agoAs opposed to what?hexbear.netimagemessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1136arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1136arrow-down1imageAs opposed to what?hexbear.netAlaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·9 months agoIdea for a bit: China propping up and arming a breakaway Alaska
minus-squareAlaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·9 months agoSadly any sort of insurrection here would lead to mass starvation if there wasn’t any nations backing a breakaway Alaska, we’re just too reliant on the importation of food via barges for any sort of separatism.
minus-squareTankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·9 months agoYou’re right, though Taiwan is only something like 31% food self sufficient so even though it’s a terrible idea it doesn’t stop people from trying. Also, I wonder if Putin would ship food across the Bering Straight just because.
minus-squareAlaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 months agoI don’t know if Vladivostok is self-sufficient enough to do that or if they have to get their supplies railed in as well
Idea for a bit: China propping up and arming a breakaway Alaska
Sadly any sort of insurrection here would lead to mass starvation if there wasn’t any nations backing a breakaway Alaska, we’re just too reliant on the importation of food via barges for any sort of separatism.
You’re right, though Taiwan is only something like 31% food self sufficient so even though it’s a terrible idea it doesn’t stop people from trying.
Also, I wonder if Putin would ship food across the Bering Straight just because.
I don’t know if Vladivostok is self-sufficient enough to do that or if they have to get their supplies railed in as well