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Posted on 08/11/2025 6:58:45 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
The upcoming Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, aimed at securing a peace deal for Ukraine, is being framed as a dangerous strategic error. Legitimizing Russia’s territorial conquests would set a horrible precedent, repeating the mistakes of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and potentially inspiring future Russian revanchist claims on Alaska itself. Any agreement is likely to be meaningless, as Putin has no genuine interest in a lasting peace.
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We bought Alaska from Russia. Rare-earths and all.
Was wondering how far the news would go to try and derail any attempt at negotiations.
Its clear that they’ll make up anything to do it and this sort of crap proves it.
"While Alaska possesses significant rare earth element (REE) deposits, including those at Bokan Mountain and other areas, no large-scale REE mining is currently happening in Alaska. There are active exploration efforts and potential for future mining, but regulatory hurdles and environmental concerns have hindered development."
Please stop posting your trash blog.
Do you know what would be a worse precedent? Starting a nuclear World War III over Russian territorial gains in Ukraine. Or yet another forever war that we fund for another 10 years with no end in sight.
A TDS twofer; Russia Russia Russia AND a Trump=Hitler inference.
Desperation!
It’s much more likely that Trump will be negotiating for Eastern Russia.
The USA bought Alaska from Tsarist Russia.
The USSR explicitly said that it was NOT a successor state to the Tsarist Russian empire.
The Russian federation, formed in 1991, was a successor state to the Russian Soviet Socialist republic. Ukraine is a successor state to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist republic had its own seat in the UN and was portrayed as a distinct political entity.
These people miss the point.
Who is the convening authority if one country attacks and takes over land from another? In the wide world, only the UN has any authority, and it is severely limited. And Russia has veto power in the Security Council.
In this regard, only warfare can win land or take it back.
Ukraine simply does not have the military power to push the Russians out. Unlike others here, I also don't think Russia has the military power to take the rest of Ukraine. Neither Europe nor the USA will risk open war with Russia to push them out.
It is a stalemate, with both sides furiously throwing soldiers' lives away in a feeble attempt to gain a breakthrough.
The ONLY way the Russians can take back Alaska would be over the dead bodies of Americans. They do NOT have the military capability to do so, at least under Trump.
The argument that Russia keeps certain Ukrainian territories will lead to them taking our Alaska and our Alaskans is stupid and not based on military realities.
If it gets rid of Murkowski, it’s worth considering.
It’s one way to dump Murkowski.
Framed by whom -- by corrupt warmongering globalist @ssholes who would have seen this as a "great symbolic victory for the U.S." if it had been hosted in Anchorage by George W. Bush or Hillary Clinton?
humblegunner wouldn’t have asked so nicely.
The author of this slop has no military credentials. By all appearances, he's nothing more than a Beltway propagandist and a career-long USAID welfare case.
The FRussians would love an Alaskan take over.
Can you imagine Alaskan cruises on Russian cruise lines? You would spend two weeks in every port because the ship broke down. A buffet of all of the cabbage and beets you can eat. Endless vodka and bad cigarettes.
It would be like Russian heaven.
These are all the Bush-era neocons who have become basically irrelevant and completely destroyed their credibility and electability at the national level.
Maybe California.
Does that mean that they don't recognize the 1825 Treaty of St Petersburg (Canada's western border with Alaska)? Or maybe the 1774 Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca giving them access to the Black Sea?
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