Europe and its ideas are a bigger threat..We bought Alaska for a song from Russia ..
Russia wanted us to buy Alaska because it was too far from Moscow to defend and they didn’t want Britain to get it.
The USA also bought northern California from Russia.
Remember that Fort Ross north of San Francisco is actually Fort Rossiya, and it is on the Russia river.
Fort Ross (Russian: Форт-Росс, romanized: Fort-Ross, крепость Росс, krepost’ Ross) is a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North America in what is now Sonoma County, California. Owned and operated by the Russian-American Company, it was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America from 1812 to 1841.