2024-01-23 15:41:51
Vladimir Putin signed a decree last week that would aim to return the US state of Alaska to Russia.
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This provocation comes at a time when the Russian army is on the offensive across the entire front line in Ukraine.
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????A decree signed last week by Vladimir Putin discusses the preservation of Russia’s “historical assets”, including those located outside the country’s current borders.
According to observers, the text reignites the controversy… pic.twitter.com/aSN20AvfTO
— (Little) Think Tank (@L_ThinkTank) January 22, 2024
The Russian president describes the sale of Alaska as illegitimate, according to information from the media Geo.fr.
“The decree requires that the Russian administration to this begins searching for all “property of the Russian Federation, the former Russian Empire, the former USSR”. This might certainly apply to the occupied territories in Ukraine, Crimea for example, but the mention of the “Russian Empire” seems to be able to refer only to Alaska, the only territory having at that time, by transaction, left the Russian fold. », Translated the French media.
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia and former President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev commented on the news on the social network “X”.
“According to representatives of the State Department, Russia will not receive Alaska, which was sold to the United States in the 19th century,” he wrote.
According to a State Department representative, Russia is not getting back Alaska, which was sold to the U.S. in the 19th century.
This is it, then. And we’ve been waiting for it to be returned any day. Now war is unavoidable ????
— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) January 22, 2024
“That’s it. And we were waiting for the territory to return in the coming days. Now war is inevitable,” he adds with a laughing emoji.
This rhetoric which aims to retake Alaska from American control has been spreading in Russia for several years. Already in 2022, a poster declaring that “Alaska is ours” might be seen in Russia.
The territory in America’s far northwest was sold to the United States in 1867 for the now-obsolete sum of $7.2 million, becoming America’s 49th state at the time. American union.
However, some may forget, Alaska is only separated from Russia by a few kilometers. The two countries can even join when the Bering Strait freezes during the cold season.
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