Russian Imperial Thought

This lovely appeared in the last seventy-two hours. I remember writing that the Tsar wanted Alaska. It was apparent when Vladimir Putin started talking about Russian lands. Now it’s transparent:

“Russia claims Alaska and vast swathes of Asia under Vladimir Putin’s new order”: The West was seriously spooked by the president’s decision to seek Russian assets, seeing it as a territorial claim.

“The new order affects all of Moscow’s historic holdings on three continents, including former colonies of the Russian Empire in the United States. The document provides means to search, register and provide legal protection for Russian property abroad, including land and buildings in the territories of the former Russian Empire and the USSR. Among the regions affected by the new decree is Alaska, which was sold to the United States in 1867 and where communities with close ties to Russia still live. Parts of Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and large parts of Asia were also once part of the empire. The Institute for the Study of War suggested that Moscow could use the president’s new executive order to destabilize its neighbors.”

Now I am shocked Putin is not claiming the west coast to the Russian River in Sonoma County. That would give him multiple deep water warm ports, including Victoria and Naval base Kitsap, a merging of both Bremerton and Bangor. Did…