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Does Russia Want Alaska Back?
American Thinker ^ | March 3, 2014 | M. Catharine Evans

Posted on 03/03/2014 6:39:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah Palin’s prescient assertion in 2008 that electing Barack Obama would embolden Russia to take on sovereign countries like Ukraine certainly seems to have been on the mark. Ironically, Tina Fey’s parody on "Saturday Night Live", taken for the truth about Palin exclaiming that she can see Russia from her house may also come true. I just hope we don't all wind up seeing Russia from our window.

After the events in Ukraine this past week followed by President Obama’s lackadaisical response at a press conference Saturday and Palin’s original remark that Russia can be seen from “land here in Alaska,” a 2012 article from The Voice of Russia reads a bit more ominously.

Sergei Sayenko writes:

…the purchase of Alaska has been surrounded by numerous rumors and myths. Some say that the US did not pay Russia in full; others insist that Alaska was not sold but was leased for 99 years. There is also a belief that the purchase treaty had been repeatedly violated, so it can be contested these days. The purchase of Alaska once inspired a popular Russian pop-rock band Lyube to compose a humorous song called ‘Don`t be a fool, America, give us Alaska back’. The song reflects Russia`s worries about Alaska, although the text has some historical inaccuracies.

…It must be mentioned, however, that at the time when the deal was signed, many Russians regretted that Alaska was no longer theirs.

…In the 20th century large oil and gas fields worth hundreds of millions of dollars were discovered in Alaska. Since then the region has turned into an actively developing US state with the highest per-capita GDP in the nation....

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; bhorussia; coldwar2; communism; obama; palin; putin; russia; sovietunion; ukraine; wolverines
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To: KC_Lion

No it is true

Beside Russians know strong women Catherine the Great

Elizabeth the daughter of Peter the great took the throne

So they know motherly superpower

You know what they say about Mama bears and her cubs

Especially Mama bear feel that her family being threated


41 posted on 03/03/2014 7:05:06 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: KC_Lion
True, but she and pooty-poot do have one thing in common, one thing that stands in stark contrast to obama.

The are both strong patriots who love their country.

42 posted on 03/03/2014 7:05:26 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sure.

They would also like Fort Ross back as well.


43 posted on 03/03/2014 7:09:11 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: SevenofNine
Which Makes me Wish We had Sarah Leading, or ANYONE who wasn't a Poacher like Ubama is.

That is what he is, a Poacher of American Freedoms.

44 posted on 03/03/2014 7:10:54 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

yeah you could sayyyy that about Obama he is poarcher instead poraching animals he poarch American freedoms


45 posted on 03/03/2014 7:12:09 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Marguerite

And the Chinese want Siberia back....


46 posted on 03/03/2014 7:12:15 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Fiji Hill

Beat me.

I thought I was gonna be first to give them the idea....


47 posted on 03/03/2014 7:13:03 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder if Spain wants St. Augustine, FL back? This could get sticky.


48 posted on 03/03/2014 7:13:20 PM PST by lodi90
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To: SevenofNine

And Wants to Poach that Mama Grizzly, or at least call her a Pig with Lipstick.....(he is such an Assclown)


49 posted on 03/03/2014 7:13:21 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

One thing for sure we could find ole Sarah birth ceritcate unlike this President

Come think of it I could probably find Deadliest Catch captains fishing license online before I could find this President birth certicate or his law license

Or even his first lady Michelle Obama license


50 posted on 03/03/2014 7:13:39 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: lodi90

HEY when Spain going get California back do they want it back LOL!

This Cali girl inquiroring mind want to know LOL!


51 posted on 03/03/2014 7:14:58 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: SevenofNine
Oh I am Sure the Press would find EVERYTHING of Sarah.

Esspecially the things she didn't do.

I just take satisfaction that those people can only live in Fantasy land for so long until Reality Hits them in the face with a 2X4.

52 posted on 03/03/2014 7:16:59 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

Sarah just said on Hannity that the world views Putin as a man who wrestles bears and Obama as a guy who wears mom jeans.

Ouch.


53 posted on 03/03/2014 7:19:01 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: JudyinCanada
I saw that too.

That is why I posted Sarah's Hunting Pics.

54 posted on 03/03/2014 7:20:20 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: SevenofNine

Based on the new and developing Crimea doctrine I think Mexico gets CA and TX. Then if we could get the French to take back Detroit it’s wouldn’t be all bad.


55 posted on 03/03/2014 7:30:16 PM PST by lodi90
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To: KC_Lion
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56 posted on 03/03/2014 7:35:11 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: JudyinCanada

57 posted on 03/03/2014 7:36:01 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: null and void; JudyinCanada; SevenofNine

There we go. Perfect!


58 posted on 03/03/2014 7:37:37 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Even though I know Palin is capable of making a mistake every now and then, I don’t think Putin would try anything as long as she lives in Alaska and is armed.


59 posted on 03/03/2014 7:40:24 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"We dare not tempt them with weakness."
John Kennedy

60 posted on 03/03/2014 7:50:40 PM PST by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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