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hypothetically speaking
what would happen if India just let's Pakistan have Kashmir?
The suggestion is ludicrous.
As ludicrous as Russia asking for Alaska
After Crimea, Russians Say They Want Alaska Back | News | The Moscow Times
After Crimea, Russians Say They Want Alaska Back
- By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber
- Apr. 01 2014 00:00
- Last edited 19:49
WikicommonsA Russian Orthodox monastery sits near the coast of Alaska’s Spruce Island, which the Church has laid claim to.
A mere four kilometers separate Russia's Big Diomede Island from Alaska's Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait.
This boundary between two feuding powers — known as the "Ice Curtain" during the Cold War — is likely the only place from which former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin could really see Russia.
But after Russia's annexation of Crimea, which the Kremlin said corrected a "historical mistake," some in Russia would like to see the divide with Alaska eliminated by having Russia stake a new claim on the territory, which Tsar Alexander II sold to the U.S. for $7.2 million in 1867.