Posted on 10/28/2022 8:06:42 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Billboards proclaiming "Alaska Is Ours!" have been spotted in Russia one day after a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that the country could reclaim the territory that was sold to the U.S. in 1867.
Multiple billboards bearing the slogan surprised residents in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk after being spotted on Thursday, according to Krasnoyarsk news agency NGS24. One day earlier, Putin ally and State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin suggested that Russia could "take back" Alaska in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed on Russia following the country's invasion of Ukraine.
While the billboards appeared just after an official suggested an invasion of the U.S. state, they do not appear to have been placed by the Russian government. Krasnoyarsk restaurateur Vladimir Vladimirov told NGS24 that there were "several of them in different parts of the city" but he assumed that the billboards had been ordered by "some patriot."
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"Let America always remember: there's a piece of territory, Alaska," Volodin said during a State Duma session, according to The Moscow Times. "When they try to manage our resources abroad, let them think before they act that we, too, have something to take back."
Pyotr Tolstoy, deputy speaker of the State Duma, also reportedly proposed that "referendum" be held for Alaskan residents to vote on joining Russia.
While Alaskan support for joining Russia is far from widespread, WhiteHouse.Gov petitions titled "Alaska Back to Russia" gained tens of thousands of signatures in 2014 and 2015.
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MOLON LABE!......................
Let’s see - should Alaska join a country with a collapsing economy that is riddled with crime and political corruption with an unstable, war-mongering president?
Or stay with a country with a collapsing economy that is riddled with crime and political corruption with an unstable, war-mongering president
Meanwhile there’s a genuine invasion at out southern border.
Who says Russians have no sense of humor.
LOL
Sandwiched between an authoritarian country and a communist totalitarian country [Canada]. The best part is that they can have Murkowski as the Alaska representative to the Russian parliament.
1,000 points.
Murkowski probably agrees.
Or would at least sell Alaska to the Russians for a 10% commission to herself.
If we lose WW III they might get it back at the peace table. China gets Guam and Hawaii (An independent kingdom and close ally of the People’s Republic). We have not had to lose territory when you lose a war, but that is common in European History. Just to humble us—they would do it too. One of their saints was a missionary to the Natives of Alaska. Look to see gold domed churches sprout up in Alaska after the take over.
Well, look at the bright side, no more Murkowski.
Just the Russian River Valley.
If Russia wants Lisa Murkowski they can have her not to mention Mary Peltola and other RINO’s and Democrats who live there...sarc
Sorry, Vlad, we kept the Bill of Sale.
and how would Russia “get back” Alaska?
they can’t even conquer more than a 100-mile strip of Ukraine successfully, after more than 8 months
another empty threat
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