By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-21 23:04:46 | Updated at 2024-09-30 03:35:28
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Russian State TV Discusses Options For Seizing Alaska
Newsweek ^ | September 20, 2024 | Sophie Clark and John Feng
Posted on 09/21/2024 3:50:57 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Russian State TV recently broadcasted a segment of a talk show during which the hosts discussed the potential of Alaska joining Russia.
In the show, the host makes a joke saying: "Do you know what they call Alaska? Ice Crimea."
He then adds that Alaska will "one day return to its native shores."
The hosts are referencing the fact that Alaska once "belonged" to Russia, before being sold to the United States in 1866. This echoes rhetoric used in the war in Ukraine, that Ukraine "belonged" to Russia, and therefore should rejoin its so-called native land.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: alaska; china; military; seize
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When your enemy is literally broadcasting his ultimate intentions, people should wake up and listen.
In what may be termed Russian expansionism and desire to usurp new territories for ultranationalism, Russian state TV presenter Olga Skabeyeva has referred to the U.S. state of Alaska as "our Alaska". During the Russia-1 program '60 Minutes', a propagandist anchor made this remark while talking to Adalbi Shkhagoshev, a deputy of Russia's Parliament, the State Duma, reports the Daily Express US. The lawmaker was talking about the joint patrol carried out by Russia and China last week. The military exercise took place within 200 miles of the Alaskan coast.
Russia Now Wants Alaska Back from America
Some Russian commentators, fueled by nationalist rhetoric, have continued to suggest that Alaska should be returned to Russia, despite the fact that the territory was legally purchased by the United States in 1867.
This notion has resurfaced recently, with propagandist Olga Skabeyeva and Russian lawmakers like Oleg Matveychev calling for Alaska's return. However, these claims are entirely baseless, as Alaska was sold to the U.S. for $7.2 million in a legitimate transaction.
The deal, initially criticized in the U.S. as "Seward's Folly," proved valuable after the discovery of gold and later, oil. American officials, including Alaska's Governor Mike Dunleavy, have dismissed these Russian claims with strong opposition.
Yet, in Moscow, there remain critics who seriously believe Alaska should be returned to Russia, along with other territory that was once controlled by the Czars. The latest was propagandist Olga Skabeyeva, who on Sunday's broadcast of the Russia-1 news program 60 Minutes described the 49th American state as "our Alaska" while discussing the recent joint Russian-Chinese deployment of bombers with the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).
To: Timber Rattler
In before Russian trolls lol.
To: Timber Rattler
The US is descending into barbarism. Only first world nations get to have nice things.
Now, pass the BBQ cat!
3 posted on 09/21/2024 4:00:08 PM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident)
To: MinorityRepublican
4 posted on 09/21/2024 4:01:15 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
To: Timber Rattler
Sounds like a plan to me...with all plans they work till they don’t.
5 posted on 09/21/2024 4:02:54 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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