Her choice senses the new ethos of To treat foreign policy as a ‘real estate’. In 1867 Alaska was a colony of tsar Alexander sold for $ 7.2 million in post -war United States.
It was a good “deal” for the Americans, and Donald Trump hopes to get out of today’s intra-American division with a similar success. The symbolism considers that it is possible to re -establish borders through economic press agreements, abolishing the “sacredness” of post -war Authorities of International Law. Donald Trump may not have achieved his own Alaska with her, but he gives a message.
What does a symbolic return to the era of colonial empires mean? Russia and Ukraine invoke the “anti-colonial struggle” in their ideology. It penetrates in Africa, continuing a Soviet tradition and the leader better terms of the former colonial countries of the West as the leading force of BRICS+ in the world. Ukraine recalls that Russia itself continues an imperial tradition of “land” colonization against neighboring nations.
With the choice of Alaska, Russia shows that, as in 1867, it is indifferent to a US competitive “overseas” colonization and focuses on the centralization of ethnicities, which have territorial continuity in the so -called “Russian world”. Ankorage reminds us of a specific American-Russian cooperation in World War II.
Fort Richardson Cemetery are buried Russian pilots from the US and Soviet Union alliance against the Central European Axis. Of course, the military base, with 5,500 military and civilian staff, aims to defense against Russia. However, its foundation in 1940 transferred us to an era of American -Russian cooperation in the Pacific.
The Alaska Sale Agreement by Tsar Alexander II to Americans on March 30, 1867
The “battle” of the Pacific
Today, the Pacific is the main field of geopolitical conflict of the United States with China, in which Trump insists, attempting to tow Russia outside the strong alliance with it. Russian President is seeking a repetition of important trade relations with the US, but it has no room to cancel the special relationship with the Chinese president Si Jingwhich he will see at the end of August in Tentsin, where the Shanghai Pact meets.
The choice of places remote from the European Business Theater in Ukraine marks the shift of interest from the “North Atlantic” West to the Pacific but also to the Arctic Ocean, which gains importance to energy issues, as well as ships in a period of climate crisis. THE CoilRussia’s financial representative and a key person for commercial cooperation, she told X that Alaska ‘Makes the US a Arctic Nation’.
Putin’s arrest fear
There are also practical necessities: the Russian president is wanted by the International Criminal Court. The meeting could not take place on European territory, even if the United States was proposed because of the risk of arrest. Unique options for Russia were countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia that do not recognize the court.
But the same is true of the US. With the additional advantage that a Russian president is officially invited to the United States, for the first time since 2007, he is creating diplomatic expectations of the invitation to visit the US President to Russia, cultivating hopes of depth in bilateral relations.
