The fact that more or less veiled threats to the West from Moscow are not new in recent months. The last one, however, sounds really huge and unprecedented. To do it, directly to the United States, it was Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Duma, the Russian Parliament: «They must remember that we have something to recover». The something is theAlaskathe 49th state of the USA.
Before the parliamentary leaders of the Federal Assembly, Vladimir Putin attacked the West, but always on the ground where there is already war. “In Ukraine we haven’t started to get serious yet, ”he said, adding that the Western states are unable to beat Moscow. “Do they want to defeat us on the field? Let them try ».
If these are threats at least in part real and with their feet planted on Ukraine, Volodin’s sound a bit like fantageography more than as a real political or military attack, because it really would be a direct attack on US territory.
“Alaska is from Russia. The United States should always remember this. Before they take over our resources overseas, they need to remember that we too have something to take back. Russia does not interfere in American affairs, but American politicians have blamed Russia for everything that is happening in the country. “
Alaska has not been Russia since the nineteenth century, even if, geographically, it is closer to the Russian territory, there is barely the Bering Strait to separate them, than to the US one. The United States bought it from Moscow on March 30, 1867, for 7.2 million dollars, two cents per acre which is about 4000 square meters. Alaska became the 49th state of the United States of America on January 3, 1959, the largest of all and one of the least populated, but with huge reserves of oil and natural gas.
Newsweek he said that “Alaska is ours” signs appeared in the city of Krasnoyarsk the day after the Duma president’s statements. The Republican governor of Alaska has already responded. “To Russian politicians who think they can take Alaska back: good luck,” tweeted Mike Dunleavy.
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The threat appears very Russian, the response very American. Two facts that, even if the scenario does not appear to be immediately problematic, do not at all bode well in this scenario of politics and geography which, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, does not appear so science fiction.
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Source: Vanity Fair
