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Lots of groups try to use these historical claims - some going back thousands of years - to assert ownership of various lands. On that basis, there is no end to it; nobody owns or has sovereignty over any land.
I will also observe that the most prosperous and peaceful have fewer borders: Europe is reducing theirs; the US-Canada border is porous (yes, the EU's and US's southern borders obviously complicate this theory). Russia could have had such borders with Europe; instead they chose power and death over prosperity and peace.
So you are saying Ukraine shouldn’t try to get Crimea back?
If Russia invades Baltics and deports all natives, would it be revanchist for the EU to take it back?
He ranted at length about Lenin in his speech on the eve of the invasion, and the talking point that "Crimea isn't Ukrainian it was a gift to them in the Kruschev era!" is all over the place, even by western sympathisers^Wuseful idiots.
I imagine he could frame the Alaska scenario in a similar way, though I doubt he'd actually go that far.
It's a "might makes right" philosophy. Those predecessors were "wrong" because they were weak, and a strong Russia is "right" or will make things "right" through its inherent superiority.
I'm kidding, of course. But reality has never gotten in the way of these kinds of claims...
Things have happened since then. I mean, Putin is a nutter but your argument is terrible.
2. What Alexander signed is enough that the US isn't going to give it back, ever. And no Russian government since Alexander II has been in a position where taking Alaska back is a possibility.
In another blustery warning to the U.S., Vyacheslav Volodin, a longtime Putin aide who serves as the speaker of the lower house of parliament, warned Wednesday that Washington should remember that Alaska was part of Russia when it freezes Russian assets. Russia colonized Alaska and established several settlements there until the U.S. purchased it from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million. “When they attempt to appropriate our assets abroad, they should be aware that we also have something to claim back,” Volodin said during a meeting with lawmakers.
There are plenty of politicians in Russia who say crazy stuff just like there are politicians in the US who want to invade Mexico.