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State Department responds to Putin on Alaska: ‘Certainly he’s not getting it back’
The Hill ^ | January 23, 2024 | MIRANDA NAZZARO

Posted on 01/23/2024 10:22:42 AM PST by Timber Rattler

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To: Allegra
This no doubt a leak from either Deep State or the Biden regime. They think the masses are so stupid that will believe Russia is set to invade Alaska. Thus, Congress must give Ukraine another $61 billion to we can fight the Russians then on the Alaska border.
41 posted on 01/23/2024 11:37:29 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Mariner

It would be easy.

Just send boatloads of Russian “migrants”—a few hundred thousand of them.

The Democrats would welcome them in open arms—give them cash, hotel rooms, etc etc etc.


42 posted on 01/23/2024 11:41:24 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: sjmjax
California?

No, California is reserved for Mexico.

43 posted on 01/23/2024 11:53:20 AM PST by Publius
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To: Mariner

Now is the time for Russia to take it back during the Biden Administration. If it cannot be taken by force he will make a private deal with Joe. 10% for the Big Guy.


44 posted on 01/23/2024 12:04:07 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Timber Rattler

Maybe the Russians are positioning themselves for a post-America world dominated by China, Russia, and Iran.


45 posted on 01/23/2024 12:28:15 PM PST by Savage Beast (Contempt for Truth is the evil most fundamental to the Decadence of Western Civilization.)
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To: Timber Rattler

So according to Wikipedia https://www.memri.org/tv/khaled-mashal-hamas-leader-abroad-reject-two-state-solution-october-seven-prove-liberation-river-sea-realistic Russia first claimed (part of) Alaska in 1741. Since they sold their interest in it to the US in 1867, that means that Russia held it or 126 years. The US has held it since 1867, a period of 156 and a fraction years (and counting). Even if there were no legal purchase of Alaska by the US (and there certainly was), the US has held it and maintained it (including defending it) for a longer period of time. Further, the US has spent untold hundreds of billions of dollars in developing Alaska and its resources, a figure which is added to on a daily basis.

Russia and Putin can, on this issue, go F themselves. Alaska is not merely US territory, it is a literal part of the United States. It is as American as St. Petersberg is Russian.


46 posted on 01/23/2024 12:51:26 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: bitt

State Department responds to Putin on Alaska: ‘Certainly he’s not getting it back’>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

If we war with Red China, North Korea,Iran,Afghanistan,and Russia, who is t9 say that we can keep the Russians from taking Alaska back.
We have no strategic oil reserves,our military is under equipped, mistrained ( CRT, transitioning etc), underfunded,
and poorly led.

Canada has a standing army of 100,000 or less, with two flights of jet fighters, and 4 heavy air haulers and 10 small ships. If the Russians come over the top there will be little anyone can do. Maybe the Inuit will turn them back?

As we speak the Americas are ready to be atacked by CHina and Iran through the Southern border, the softening up has already started , and by Russia into Canada and Alaska, and they have the oil money to do it.

And meanwhile the state department is casting nod, nod, wink, wink jokes? The bastids.


47 posted on 01/23/2024 1:01:38 PM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Timber Rattler

Biden took Putin’s offer?.


48 posted on 01/23/2024 1:29:18 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

It’s the only article they can get. What a joke these NeoCon Zeepers are.


49 posted on 01/23/2024 1:39:50 PM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Kazan

Batshit crazy describes the Russians: I was stationed with the UN Peacekeepers in 1988 and the Russian officers I worked will all insisted that Alaska belonged to Russia.

We were startled and incredulous - but they were insistent.

Russians are nuts.


50 posted on 01/23/2024 2:05:29 PM PST by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: 353FMG

Let’s say a war breaks out between the US and Russia, as the State Department seems to want. Let’s say China comes in on the side of Russia. Does anyone think the odds are in favor of a US led by the team that lost Afghanistan to the Taleban?

So let’s imagine the truly unthinkable, that the US loses.

Do you think Russia and China would let the US off without reparations? Goodbye Hawaii, goodbye Alaska.


51 posted on 01/23/2024 2:12:02 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Timber Rattler

Sorry Alaska but we’ve got to defend Ukraine’s border.


52 posted on 01/23/2024 2:17:27 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Kazan
That is precisely the intent. These scumbags think that by dropping "scary" stories like this one that they'll be able to stoke enough fear in the minds of low info dumbasses, like the ones who mindlessly drop Youcrayne flags in their social media even though they can't locate Youcrayne on a map.

The Deep State, neocon and globalist scum think that ginning up fear of a Russian invasion will help give them a shot at keeping their grift in Youcrayne alive for a while longer. Good luck!

53 posted on 01/23/2024 2:25:26 PM PST by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: Kazan

“”””If the Russian military has lost 500,000 troops in Ukraine and is bogged down in quagmire there, how could it possibly have the manpower and resources to invade Alaska?
And, if an Alaska invasion is such a threat, it’s all the more reason to stop spending a penny on Ukraine and redirect our military assets and spending to the Alaskan border!””””

If the Russian threat is being savaged today, right now as we speak, while invading Ukraine, why would we want to stop helping them from the injury-free sidelines and not accept this long period (2 years so far) to rejuvenate our defenses, and weapons manufacturing and grow our alliance and adapt to our newly enlarged size and unity?


54 posted on 01/23/2024 3:05:21 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

“”””””Let’s say a war breaks out between the US and Russia, as the State Department seems to want. Let’s say China comes in on the side of Russia. Does anyone think the odds are in favor of a US led by the team that lost Afghanistan to the Taleban?””””””

Aren’t you leaving out 31 other NATO countries and all of our Pacific and Asia allies?


55 posted on 01/23/2024 3:08:13 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Well, I would not want to leave out Japan and Korea. Sorry for leaving them out, but as for the rest, um, not sorry. They are counting on the US to lead and provide most of the fighting forces and materiel. Does the US look like it can lead anyone anywhere? Does anyone even know where the Secretary of Defense is?


56 posted on 01/23/2024 3:59:20 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

You should learn more about what you are posting on.


57 posted on 01/23/2024 4:01:34 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Frankly, I hope none of us learn more about this subject.


58 posted on 01/23/2024 4:39:36 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

This is just routine keeping up with national defense and foreign affairs stuff.


59 posted on 01/23/2024 4:45:25 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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If the Russian threat is being savaged today

If you believe that propaganda, you're a fool.

This is proof Zeepers like you are. You're pushing us into a hot war with Russia and/or WW III and totally delusional about the capabilities of the countries we'd have to face in war.

Russia is much stronger than it was before the war. It's gain more than five million in population in the annexed territory. It now controls the vast majority of the Black Sea coastline. The annexed area that is now part of the Russian Federation comprised 70-80% of Ukraine's GDP. And, Russia now completely free of any economic dependency on the West.

You and your ilk are the greatest threat to the national security of this country.

60 posted on 01/23/2024 5:16:19 PM PST by Kazan
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