Posted on 01/27/2015 6:36:33 AM PST by Enlightened1
In May 1881 US explorers approached Jeannette Island, Wrangell Island and Henrietta Island in the Arctic Ocean and claimed them for the United States.
Wrangell and its 200 mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) has billions of barrels of oil/gas reserves and hundreds of millions of pounds of fisheries. It also has a strategic military location for tracking Russian moves in Arctic.
Now, Vladimir Putin has begun construction of a naval base and army base on Wrangell without so much as a peep from the State Department or President Obama. Something is tragically wrong here.
The State Department has undertaken the giveaway with Putin in the guise of a maritime boundary agreement between Alaska and Siberia. But as an executive agreement, it could be reversed with the stroke of a pen by President Obama or Secretary Kerry.
The agreement was negotiated in total secrecy. The state of Alaska was not allowed to participate in the negotiations, Congress was not notified, nor was the public given any opportunity for comment. The Alaska Legislature has passed resolutions of opposition, and so has California’s legislature.
President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry could stop the giveaway with the stroke of a pen. But they won’t.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Obambi hasn’t heard about it on TV yet.
Makes you wonder.
Obama once again cozies up to our enemies and disses our allies.
There are two Wrangell Islands. (Spelled slightly different I believe).
Thanks for posting. This is a very disturbing development to say the least.
This is NOT good!
the white house is closely monitoring the situation.
President Palin to Putin: “Thanks for the military base. Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?”
There is Wrangell Island, in the southern Peninsula of Alaska, and there is Wrangel island, just north of Russia.
It should not be confused with Wrangel Island in Russia, or with the Wrangell Mountains or Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve, farther northwest in Alaska.
Russia has always controlled Wrangel Island.
From the US Department of State in 2003...
“...Wrangel Island, Herald Island, Bennett Island, Jeannette Island, or Henrietta Island.... None of the islands or rocks above were included in the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, and they have never been claimed by the United States, although Americans were involved in the discovery and exploration of some of them.”
http://2001-2009.state.gov/p/eur/rls/fs/20922.htm
Not one damn thing the dems do make me wonder!
Just like the stinking muslims, equally against America and freedom, equally dishonest and unreasonable. Someday we are going to have to wholesale force them both out or wipe them out like we did to the Loyalists after the Revolution.
We should Wrangell it away from them.................
Link doesn’t work.
What a difference an ‘l’ makes...............
Thanks for the lesson, now on which is the Ruski base being built on?
Yeah...I googled it. One is Wrangel and one is Wrangell. One is Russian, one is part of Alaska.
Interesting.
Wrong Wrangell. Wrangell Island is part of the Alaska Panhandle, well within U.S. territory. Wrangel Island is north of continental Russian and has been in Russian hands for about a hundred years or more.
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