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Russian State TV Discusses Options For Seizing Alaska
Newsweek ^ | September 20, 2024 | Sophie Clark and John Feng

Posted on 09/21/2024 3:50:57 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

Russian State TV recently broadcasted a segment of a talk show during which the hosts discussed the potential of Alaska joining Russia.

In the show, the host makes a joke saying: "Do you know what they call Alaska? Ice Crimea."

He then adds that Alaska will "one day return to its native shores."

The hosts are referencing the fact that Alaska once "belonged" to Russia, before being sold to the United States in 1866. This echoes rhetoric used in the war in Ukraine, that Ukraine "belonged" to Russia, and therefore should rejoin its so-called native land.

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VIDEO: Russian propagandists want to "restore historical justice" by capturing Finland, Poland, Baltic States and Alaska. Serbia will join voluntarily, they believe.

When your enemy is literally broadcasting his ultimate intentions, people should wake up and listen.

Will Russia invade US state of Alaska? Why did Russian TV presenter call it "Our Alaska"? Controversy deconstructed

In what may be termed Russian expansionism and desire to usurp new territories for ultranationalism, Russian state TV presenter Olga Skabeyeva has referred to the U.S. state of Alaska as "our Alaska". During the Russia-1 program '60 Minutes', a propagandist anchor made this remark while talking to Adalbi Shkhagoshev, a deputy of Russia's Parliament, the State Duma, reports the Daily Express US. The lawmaker was talking about the joint patrol carried out by Russia and China last week. The military exercise took place within 200 miles of the Alaskan coast.

Russia Now Wants Alaska Back from America

Some Russian commentators, fueled by nationalist rhetoric, have continued to suggest that Alaska should be returned to Russia, despite the fact that the territory was legally purchased by the United States in 1867.

This notion has resurfaced recently, with propagandist Olga Skabeyeva and Russian lawmakers like Oleg Matveychev calling for Alaska's return. However, these claims are entirely baseless, as Alaska was sold to the U.S. for $7.2 million in a legitimate transaction.

The deal, initially criticized in the U.S. as "Seward's Folly," proved valuable after the discovery of gold and later, oil. American officials, including Alaska's Governor Mike Dunleavy, have dismissed these Russian claims with strong opposition.

Yet, in Moscow, there remain critics who seriously believe Alaska should be returned to Russia, along with other territory that was once controlled by the Czars. The latest was propagandist Olga Skabeyeva, who on Sunday's broadcast of the Russia-1 news program 60 Minutes described the 49th American state as "our Alaska" while discussing the recent joint Russian-Chinese deployment of bombers with the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).

1 posted on 09/21/2024 3:50:57 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

In before Russian trolls lol.


2 posted on 09/21/2024 3:53:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Timber Rattler
The US is descending into barbarism. Only first world nations get to have nice things.

Now, pass the BBQ cat!

3 posted on 09/21/2024 4:00:08 PM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Da. Nyet. It is weekend so I am at my dacha.

Russian trolls my favorite ones were these two...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4txmBNCAXg8


4 posted on 09/21/2024 4:01:15 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Timber Rattler

Sounds like a plan to me...with all plans they work till they don’t.


5 posted on 09/21/2024 4:02:54 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: Timber Rattler

The Russians have wisely killed all the rattlesnakes in Russia.


6 posted on 09/21/2024 4:04:57 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Nextrush

Sheeeee-it. Russia can’t even “seize” Ukraine.

I don’t think Alaska has anything to worry about. Well, unless Kammy gets in. Then we’re all hosed.

This is just more zeeper handwringing and pearl-clutching.


7 posted on 09/21/2024 4:05:50 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wonder what the Inuit people think of being under Russian occupation?


8 posted on 09/21/2024 4:06:20 PM PDT by Marko413
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9 posted on 09/21/2024 4:08:50 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Timber Rattler

They would need mass immigration across the Bering strait first, otherwise there wouldn’t be any “Alaska People’s Republic” to break away and justify an invasion.

Russia (or China) could just wait for the idiocracy to take over. Future President Chelsea Clinton would probably sell it to them for pennies on the dollar to pay for the annual $ multitrillion interest on the national debt.

[\S].


10 posted on 09/21/2024 4:09:23 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: Timber Rattler

I remember an NBC miniseries called ‘World War III’ back in the70’s. It was about a fictional Russian incursion to take over the Alaskan Pipeline. The late Rock Hudson played the President. In the end, the Russians took it over, and it resulted in a full-scale nuclear war.

A real ‘feel good’ show, no?


11 posted on 09/21/2024 4:13:15 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Don't let evil win again!)
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To: Timber Rattler

“Three weeks to Fairbanks!”


12 posted on 09/21/2024 4:19:32 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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Only if they promise to keep Lisa Murkowski.

13 posted on 09/21/2024 4:20:30 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Timber Rattler

after conquering Ukraine in three days, Putin is hungry for more.


14 posted on 09/21/2024 4:21:10 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Timber Rattler

Grab your rifle and head for the front lines.


15 posted on 09/21/2024 4:22:33 PM PDT by McGruff (Ask everyone, Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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To: Allegra

What drama I agree with you.


16 posted on 09/21/2024 4:24:43 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Timber Rattler

Sabre Rattling.

This rhetoric would not be necessary if the US was not poking the Bear.

Biden’s fault.


17 posted on 09/21/2024 4:30:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Leaving Abortion up to the States is like Leaving Slavery up to the States.)
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To: Timber Rattler

No, but we will take Greenland


18 posted on 09/21/2024 4:30:29 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: Marko413

Depends on whether the Russians can run a decent liquor store.


19 posted on 09/21/2024 4:31:40 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Timber Rattler

Come and take it bitches! You ain’t getting Alaska but you can have Hawaii and Disneyland.


20 posted on 09/21/2024 4:33:09 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If the DNC would spay and neuter their supporters we wouldn't need all these abortions.)
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