What if we never bought Alaska from Russia?

What if we never bought Alaska from Russia?

The cold war would've gotten hot fast as fuck, or Alaska forms a republic during October revolution

The Russians would probably sell it to the British and it would be a part of Canada.

>The cold war would've gotten hot fast as fuck
Why?

Sarah Palin would literally see Russia from her porch/window.

Look at a fucking map some time. We dam near ended the world over Cuba, having a part of the actual Soviet Union so close to the USA would have guaranteed a nuclear war.

Retard

But Alaska being part of the US actually made the Soviet Union closer to the USA. It's right fucking next to it.

this, russia simply couldn't afford to keep it

Yeah, but then Russia would have had a proper land border with a NATO country. Assuming of course in this timeline Russia actually sends more than twenty colonists to Alaska, and that Canada is relevent.

>Yeah, but then Russia would have had a proper land border with a NATO country.
Turkey, Norway?

>What if we never bought Alaska from Russia?
White Russians resist there eventually leading to a independent Russian-speaking nation in the Americas.

Are you retarded? Nukes didn't even exist in 1917.

How the fuck do people like you type up a post, solve the captcha and hit the button?

Japan would have taken it from Russia in war and the US would have taken it in WW2.

Are you being retarded on purpose? We are implying that history progressed the way it did until present day, with the Soviets owning Alaska. If we nearly melted down over Cuba, we would completely shit out pants with the Soviets having the such a massive area literally a days drive from the northern united states

alaskan gulag for OP

IINM, at the time the British were building up the Japanese for the purpose of going to war with Russia. I don't think they would give it to Great Britain.

>Proper

Finland and Armenia were workable buffer states for those two boarders. You can't really get a real invasion force into russia through either the caucaus or Kirkenes.

There is a bit more room to work with on the alaskan/canadian border.

>The US invents nukes thirty years early (a mere two years after Einstein publishes the first papers leading to general relativity!) because waaahhh muh borrdorrs

Yeah, nah, you're a cunt. Any diplomatic objections would have been dealt with long before nuclear warfare was ever a possibility, much less an option.

>White
>Russians

>inb4 hurr durr /pol/ has arrived

What the fuck does Vladimir Putin look like to you retard

Somewhere between gook and slav

The Cold War would've been more fun.

He is of Baltid phentoype, his eyes are slanted due to adaption to life in sub-zero climates, it has nothing to do with Asiatic additions to the Russian gene pool.

t. chink apologist

No fallout series :(

They wouldn't sell it to the British

It would've been taken by the British

Russia's situation with Alaska was dominated by 2 things, one was the economic factor, it wasn't producing enough money to be worth the cost of administering it. Second was rising tensions with Great Britain, and they feared that britain would see Alaska was an easy picking just after the Crimean War.

Russia was desperate just to get rid of the place to save money and hopefully diffuse tensions with Britain and the US was the first buyer. So it was happily sold as the US and Russia actually had a pretty friendly relationship at the time.

Armenia wasn't a country retard it was a part of the USSR