Litwin
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Too late to be an Indian giver.
russians had the opportunity to remain in alaska, or go back to russia in 1870....that's that
it was a national joke at the time buying it.................seward's folly
update :Well the Andrew Johnson administration bought Alaska from Russia in 1867 so there are about 3% (26,000) Alaskans descended from the ethnic Russians who were there at the time and counting 30 years as one generations, they are now more than five generations removed from that original population.
Another roughly 1 percent of Alaskans fled communist Russia in the early Twentieth Century and there is no indication that many, if any, would go back now. They probably hate most of what the current administration has done for/to them, but I don't think they think they need Russia's 'protection.'
So, if Russia invades Alaska, we will be at war with Russia. Or as an alternative, we could sell Alaska back to Russia for $33 trillion and wipe out our national debt. But let's do that when fiscal hawks have control of the House so we don't run up that bill again.
For the record, if Donald Trump was in the White House I am confident there would be no Russia/Ukraine (or any other) war at this time and Medvedev wouldn't even have hinted at 'protecting ethnic Russians in Alaska.' That is the difference between an American President who believes in peace through strength instead of one that is clueless, feckless, irresponsible, self serving.