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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Putin Wants Alaska Back. Also, People In Hell Want Icewater
2024-01-23
[Battleswarmblog] “I’ll take Absurd News for $200.”

Russia laid the groundwork for expanding its soft power across North America and Asia with a new executive order signed by Vladimir Putin last week.

The new order provides funds for the search, registration and legal protection of Russian properties abroad, including land and buildings located on the territory of the former Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

Among the areas affected by the new decree is Alaska, which was sold to the United States in 1867 and still has communities with close ties to Russia.

Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and large parts of Asia were once part of the former empire.

However, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that “it is not clear what Russia’s current or historical assets consist of.”

... Still, the “just wants to watch the world burn” part of me wants to see Pooty-Poot’s Russia try to conquer Alaska, if only because the American reaction to whatever half-assed misexpedition across the Bearing Strait Russia is able to launch might result in the complete seizure of the Kuril-Aleut oil fields in far eastern Siberia. Indeed, I imagine that it wouldn’t even be a week before American air power completely wrecked the fragile Transiberian Railway and Highway, making Russian forces in the far east completely SOL. At that point, an American air and sea bridge from Alaska would still provide more reliable logistical support than Russia’s long, primitive and fragile Transiberian transport network.
Posted by:DarthVader

#8  So the Russian equivalent of the GSA is taking inventory - maybe not a bad idea with all the chatter about seizing Russian assets abroad - and that gets turned into Putin wants Alaska back. Sure, whatever.

The first question to ask is Why? Russian is currently busy frying some bigger existential fish, but it never hurts to whip up a little hysteria, right? The second question is How? Look at a map before you answer.

/filed under Hair on Fire
Posted by: SteveS   2024-01-23 21:33  

#7  From a comment at the article link, which I am not capable of judging:

10x25mm says:
January 23, 2024 at 2:41 AM
This is CIA-sourced fake news. The Putin XO is not yet posted on the official President of Russia site, but it has been covered on TASS:

http://en.kremlin.ru/acts/news
https://tass.com/russia/1734479

The “Department of Foreign Property of the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation” is their equivalent of the U.S. GSA’s real estate operation:

http://government.ru/en/department/117/
https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-01-23 19:18  

#6  Hey, I had to cancel my Poconos trip, no way I'm cancelling the cruise. Pooty-Poot needs to back off until after.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2024-01-23 18:59  

#5  By the looks of what has been going on in Ukraine, I doubt the Russian military could defeat the local population of Alaska.
Posted by: Chris   2024-01-23 16:12  

#4  Biden will let let them have Palin's old house. Maybe Andrew Sullivan's place next door, too.
Posted by: ed in texas   2024-01-23 15:38  

#3  ^Think of the poor Grizzly bears living under Soviet Russian rule! It would be horrible!!!!
Posted by: DarthVader   2024-01-23 15:31  

#2  If they keep re-electing Murkowski, maybe we should let them have it.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-01-23 13:12  

#1  That document that they are saying supports this nonsense, the document with the Russian Seal that is making the rounds, that doc is fake. This story is #FakeNews.
Posted by: mossomo   2024-01-23 13:02  

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