Russia could buy Alaska back at a very cheap price. Sarah Palin really devalued the state’s brand.
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Canada: There goes the neighborhood.
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With Palin still there, Russia may take a pass. They need useful idiots.
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I think that was scheduled for Trump’s second term of office.
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Is it really though 
ARCTIC OCEAN
OR ARCTIC SEA
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So what will they be willing to sell off if they lose THIS war in the Ukraine? I’m sure the Poles would buy Kaliningrad (nee Konigsberg)
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I have friends in St. Petersburg, and they tell me most residents of that progressive tech city would be thrilled if Finland annexed them.
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We have hundreds of thousands of armed Alaskans and military members that will see it differently.
More to the point, a couple of 20 somethings in North Dakota with a pair of keys.
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I suspect that what it doesn’t have could also be a serious issue:
Their logistics in Ukraine went to hell wherever the ‘advance far enough to snap in to existing soviet-spec railway infrastructure’ plan fell through; and Ukraine has railway infrastructure. Nontrivial chunks of Alaska are only tenuously accessible overland at all; and you certainly won’t find 1,520/1,524mm gauge laid out for you between all the sites worth raising a flag over.
That quite likely actually makes plucky partisans even less useful, since even naïve optimists aren’t going to be sending squishy convoys along roads that are nonexistent or visibly inadequate, and much more of the activity would presumably be by sea or air where having expensive specialist hardware is at a premium; but it’s still a headache for anyone who wants to change the status quo.
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Plus, the Ukraine partisans aren’t random people with small arms. The actually successful raids and ambushes are being made by trained soldiers, often special forces, with sophisticated weaponry that they were trained on, supplied from their own stocks or from the west.
Also, the idea alone of staging a large scale naval landing in modern times. I’m not sure it can even be done.
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Russian diplomats would no doubt object that with only 23 thousand remaining miles of coastline they would become completely landlocked
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Every time someone mentions Russian irredentist claims on Alaska, I’m reminded of Vladimir Zhirinovsky & this song
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They’re already complaining that Kaliningrad is blockaded because Lithuania won’t allow transit of sanctioned goods.
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Missed opportunity
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