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I think Uncle Sam bought Alaska from the Czar with very cheap price. Alaska is very rich in natural resources of oil, fishes, timber, and minerals. It seldom any person can buy the whole country and its sovereignty. Even the rich Chinese man is being intervened by the China government to buy less than 0.01% of the land of the Iceland for building tourist resort. Let me put it in this way, economically a group of rich powerful businessmen or politicians can manipulating the economic activities of a country and take advantages out of it of by means of colonization, or the Latin America was once named as the banana republic which is quite disparaging. For instance, Hong Kong has returned to China in 1997, the British still controlling many commercial property and investments of Hong Kong.
Yes, many countries sold land to the US but not the country.
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