Whoa there. See WWII history and Alaska.
@eschereal should have been more specific.
No US state has been invaded.
Otherwise he would have had to include Pearl Harbor.
The Wiki article says that the Japanese did invade and occupy two remote (but populated) islands. And very fierce battles ensued. Interesting, I had never come across this part of history before.
A German sub dropped several agents on the beach in my home town on Long island during WWII with the intent of sabotage They were later apprehended due to betrayal within their ranks.
That was more of an infiltration. An invasion is an overt act of tromping in with an army and declaring “this is ours now”.
The Wiki article on the Aleutians is a bit unclear. It says that most of them “belong to” Alaska. Is there some distinction that they are drawing here from being “part of” Alaska? If I and my gang invade an island in the Aleutians, is there any sense in which we have not invaded the state of Alaska?
Fully backing this Canadiana/possible Japanese US overthrow derail.
I think the technicality is that Alaska was not admitted as a state until 1959. Hence @k9bfriender saying “No US state has been invaded.”
Thanks.
Well the original proposition that Sidney Powell might be insane has been decided in the affirmative so wandering is the default on this board.
The westernmost 6 of them actually belong to Russia. So you could invade those, and just be invading Russia.
ETA: and as @ctnguy says, Alaska wasn’t actually a state during WWII
There’s also the technicality that the Aleutian Islands are, well, islands, so even if you count mainland Alaska as being part of the Continental U.S., the Aleutians aren’t actually on the continent, so might not technically count as part of the Continental U.S.
But “mainland” and “continental” are not synonymous. The “Continental U.S.”, includes many islands. It just excludes Hawaii.
Perhaps you can make an argument that some of the Aleutians are far enough away from the mainland that they should be excluded, but it does not fall out indisputably from the usual definition. But they are not really very far away from the peninsula anyway.
Shrug I’m not making the argument, just speculating on why someone might be differentiating between Aleutian islands being “part of” Alaska" and the Aleutian islands “belonging to” Alaska.
I think you’re reading too much legal specificity into a wikipedia article.
Yes, Canaris sabotaged this operation.
I half listened to her, and I thought she was referring to herself as the kracken, and that could work, much like Nick Charles was the Thin Man.
I agree, I was just asking the question in case I was missing something - but I think it’s just a turn of phrase.
Does that make Rudy some sort of terrier?
nope, just a rat.