The One Road That Gives Canada Total Control Over Alaska

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49. That's the number Trump should think about every time he jokes about Canada becoming the "51st state." Because America's REAL 49th state — Alaska, home to 730,000+ Americans — is not connected to the United States. Between Alaska and the lower 48 sit hundreds of miles of Canada. And there is exactly ONE road linking them: the Alaska Highway — roughly 1,400 miles, the overwhelming majority on Canadian soil, under Canadian law, behind a Canadian border post. The road was born in America's darkest hour. After Pearl Harbor — and after Japan actually OCCUPIED the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska, the only North American soil held by an enemy in WWII — Roosevelt ordered a road to Alaska on Feb 11, 1942. Eleven thousand U.S. soldiers built 1,500+ miles through mountains, muskeg and permafrost in EIGHT MONTHS, at 40-50 below zero. Roughly a third were Black Americans in segregated regiments (the 93rd, 95th, 97th Engineers) — barred from local towns, given hand tools while white units go

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