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In a recent appearance on Russia’s state-run television, Russian political scientist Sergey Mikheyev suggested that the country’s “empire” should grow to encompass three American states.

“I want the Russian empire with Alaska, Hawaii, California, Finland, and Poland,” he said, as translated by Gerashchenko for the clip he shared. “Although Poland and Finland are so stinky, I’m not sure, to be honest. We’ll clean them.”

      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Hmm, Pearl Harbor and the place where the 10th mountain train to fight in snow.

        Ok Ivan, good luck. You’re gonna need it.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I think you forget that we have 24 hour satellite surveillance all over the globe.

      If you think Russia could send a large fraction of its blue water navy to one single point on the globe while also mustering all those troops and equipment on the ground in Russia beforehand without the US knowing about it weeks before hand, you don’t have a good grasp on the level of technology employed in today’s military.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Also its alaska. Russia would be operating out of what, vladivastok maybe to take similarly shitty US ports in alaska.

      If russia wants shitty coastal wilderness at uninhabitable climates they already have them.

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      8 months ago

      Where is Russia 2 miles from Alaska? It’s about 50ish miles. Last I checked, it’s also not a great place to start a ground invasion. The US could blow the shit out of that area of Alaska and nothing much would be missed.

      • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Where is Russia 2 miles from Alaska?

        The international border goes between the islands of little and big Diomede. Both of these islands are remote from land in either direction, and they are situated about midway in the narrowest part of the Bering Strait.

        Since you asked where, here it is on a map

        Yep, that’s pretty close, but nope, that’s not really tactically meaningful.