This has got to be a hoax.
Will he also apologize and bow for us having them in the first place?
SO great, now that everyone loves us..!
WTF ? Is this true ?
So where is the MSM on this?
In fairness to Obama, these islands are already “controlled by Russia. Geographically they ar closer to Russia.
And I wouldn’t want our military to go to war tying to defend them.
The Obama Administration is reportedly giving away Wrangell, Bennett, Jeannette and Henrietta islands in Alaska to Russia. The federal government drew the line to put these seven Alaskan islands on the Russian side
Former senatorial candidate Joe Miller broke this story at World Net Daily:
The Obama administration, despite the nation’s economic woes, effectively killed the job-producing Keystone Pipeline last month. The Arab Spring is turning the oil production of Libya and other Arab nations over to the Muslim Brotherhood. Iraq is distancing itself from the U.S. And everyone recognizes that Iran, whose crude supplies are critical to the European economy, will do anything it can to frustrate America’s strategic interests. In the face of all of this, Obama insists on cutting back U.S. oil potential with outrageous restrictions.
Part of Obama’s apparent war against U.S. energy independence includes a foreign-aid program that directly threatens my state’s sovereign territory. Obama’s State Department is giving away seven strategic, resource-laden Alaskan islands to the Russians. Yes, to the Putin regime in the Kremlin.
The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea include one the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. The Russians are also to get the tens of thousands of square miles of oil-rich seabeds surrounding the islands. The Department of Interior estimates billions of barrels of oil are at stake.
The State Department has undertaken the giveaway in the guise of a maritime boundary agreement between Alaska and Siberia. Astoundingly, our federal government itself drew the line to put these seven Alaskan islands on the Russian side. But as an executive agreement, it could be reversed with the stroke of a pen by President Obama or Secretary Clinton.
The agreement was negotiated in total secrecy. The state of Alaska was not allowed to participate in the negotiations, nor was the public given any opportunity for comment. This is despite the fact the Alaska Legislature has passed resolutions of opposition – but the State Department doesn’t seem to care.
The imperiled Arctic Ocean islands include Wrangell, Bennett, Jeannette and Henrietta. Wrangell became American in 1881 with the landing of the U.S. Revenue Marine ship Thomas Corwin. The landing party included the famed naturalist John Muir. It is 3,000 square miles in size.
More oil/gas giveaway.
Obama is just being fair and doing the Christian thing by sharing with Russia.
Definitely a hoax. There is zero record that these islands ever belonged to the USA, or were even claimed by the USA. WND is wrong on this one.
At least Russia will develop any oil reserves found there.
This has to be fake. I wouldn’t believe it unless he was going to PAY Russia to take them.
The islands are located on the Russian side of the maritine boundry, and have long been claimed and controled by Russia. The US only claimed them, but has never controled them. Ozero is just relinguishiing claims made in the 1880s, and would never be ceded by Russia.
Just another demand by his masters - and act of faith, if you will - to prove he really will give Russia all the US missile tech and get rid of US nukes.
Move along.
The Communist in Chief is giving Hawaii to his commie buds?
Who the hell does this Kenyan bass turd think he is? He can’t do this!
OK... Now some FACTS.
The Soviets occupied these islands since 1926, with a small group of colonists.
A Small Soviet Airbase, and an Early Warning Radar Station existed on Wrangell, until the end of the 70’s.
Although various western claims have been made on the islands since 1849, the US State Department recognizes none of them.
These are Russian Islands, there is just no official treaty that says so. THIS IS NOT THE WRANGELL ISLAND of the Inside Straights, near Juneau.
Is it April 1st already??
Negotiations are underway to return Alaska to Russia and Lousiana to France. :)
Just looked at a Funk&Wagnalls Hammond World atlas from 1975 (height of the cold war). There is NO indication that these islands were under dispute in the atlas. Normally there is an indication in atlas’s of dispute, but in this case nothing is indicated even though it was during the height of US-Soviet embitterment. I looked at all maps and all extraneous materials to see if it was included in one spot and not another, but there is nothing to indicate otherwise. in fact the boundary in that map is identical to the one included on this thread. I’m not saying there wasn’t a claim, but if there was it was a well kept whisper.
What potential we're losing!
The President continues to do everything he possibly can to weaken America.
It’s really quite striking, and should be the cause of no little dismay.
But no one in the media so much as blinks.
It’s all very strange.