[tophat9000]

From the perspective of raw resources and strategy geopolitical location it probably one of the most important states in the union...but most just don't get it (The "You can see Russia from Alaska" comment was really a relevant point....the Bering straits is a back door between Eurasia and N America...any conflict between the US and Russia or China and the Bering Straits is going to be a nuclear Jutland and who wins it probably wins the war

[RKV]

Money and votes matter. Alaska doesn’t have that much of either. Money will buy you resources. Geopolitical strategic locations aren’t in the middle of nowhere. They are where economic and population centers are. Russia and China don’t need to transit the Bering to get to the US.