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Putin Builds Naval and Army Base on Wrangell Island – Owned By the US
Gateway Pundit ^ | 01/27/15 | Jim Hoft

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: navybase; obama; putin; russia
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1 posted on 01/27/2015 6:36:33 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Obambi hasn’t heard about it on TV yet.


2 posted on 01/27/2015 6:37:44 AM PST by Shimmer1 ("If you say you support liberty, show me where you stood up and fought for it." Ted Cruz)
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To: Enlightened1
Carter giving away the Panama Canal was certainly worse -- but it seems like Democrats are always eager to give away US territory to our enemies.

Makes you wonder.

3 posted on 01/27/2015 6:39:00 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Malort, turning taste-buds into taste-foes for generations.)
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To: Enlightened1

Obama once again cozies up to our enemies and disses our allies.


4 posted on 01/27/2015 6:39:10 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: Enlightened1

There are two Wrangell Islands. (Spelled slightly different I believe).


5 posted on 01/27/2015 6:40:19 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Enlightened1

Thanks for posting. This is a very disturbing development to say the least.


6 posted on 01/27/2015 6:40:48 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Enlightened1

This is NOT good!


7 posted on 01/27/2015 6:41:10 AM PST by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31)
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8 posted on 01/27/2015 6:42:25 AM PST by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: Enlightened1

the white house is closely monitoring the situation.


9 posted on 01/27/2015 6:48:19 AM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Enlightened1

President Palin to Putin: “Thanks for the military base. Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?”


10 posted on 01/27/2015 6:53:35 AM PST by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: Enlightened1

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.


11 posted on 01/27/2015 6:55:38 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Enlightened1

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


12 posted on 01/27/2015 6:56:25 AM PST by JoeDetweiler
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To: ClearCase_guy

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.


13 posted on 01/27/2015 7:05:59 AM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: Enlightened1

We should Wrangell it away from them.................


14 posted on 01/27/2015 7:07:35 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Enlightened1

Link doesn’t work.


15 posted on 01/27/2015 7:07:46 AM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: wbarmy

What a difference an ‘l’ makes...............


16 posted on 01/27/2015 7:08:20 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: wbarmy

Thanks for the lesson, now on which is the Ruski base being built on?


17 posted on 01/27/2015 7:08:40 AM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yeah...I googled it. One is Wrangel and one is Wrangell. One is Russian, one is part of Alaska.
Interesting.


18 posted on 01/27/2015 7:11:03 AM PST by ncpatriot
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19 posted on 01/27/2015 7:18:07 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Enlightened1

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.


20 posted on 01/27/2015 7:23:32 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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