Kremlin hardliner Medvedev warns of “unavoidable” conflict in smirking threat to US over Alaska

Pro-Kremlin voices on social media have expressed strange optimism that Russia might somehow challenge U.S. sovereignty over Alaska.

This followed an order by Russian President Vladimir Putin directing authorities to search for foreign lands that once belonged to the former USSR the Russian Empire and register ownership over them.

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Although Putin's decree did not explicitly name Alaska, Washington has firmly told Moscow that attempts to claim U.S. territory will not be tolerated.

"I think I speak for all of us in the U.S. government to say that certainly [Putin] is not getting it back," said State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel, commenting on Russian claims about the allegedly "unawful" sale of Alaska in 1867.

Kremlin jester Dmitry Medvedev, who holds the symbolic position of Deputy Head of the Security Council in Russia, stumbled into the discourse over Alaska and, perhaps over a few drinks, came up with empty threats to take the United States to war.

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"According to a State Department representative, Russia is not getting back Alaska, which was sold to the United States in the 19th century," he wrote on Jan. 23 on his English-language account on X (Twitter), putting a smiley face at the end to signify that he was unfazed by this delusional statement.

“This is it, then. And we’ve been waiting for it to be returned any day. Now war is unavoidable.”

For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree on preserving national identity.

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The document recognizes Kuban, Starodubshchyna, as well as Northern and Eastern Slobozhanshchyna in modern-day Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov oblasts, as well as Krasnodar Krai, as historically Ukrainian lands inhabited by Ukrainians.

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