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🧵 THREAD:

How Russia Sold Alaska to the United States — and Why It May Have Been One of History’s Biggest Strategic Miscalculations🔥

1/ 🌎 Why is Alaska so important?

Alaska isn’t just a frozen piece of land.

It sits between North America, Russia and the Pacific, giving whoever controls it enormous strategic reach across the Arctic and North Pacific.

And beneath its land and waters lie enormous natural resources.

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🧵 THREAD:

How Russia Sold Alaska to the United States — and Why It May Have Been One of History’s Biggest Strategic Miscalculations🔥

1/ 🌎 Why is Alaska so important?

Alaska isn’t just a frozen piece of land.

It sits between North America, Russia and the Pacific, giving whoever controls it enormous strategic reach across the Arctic and North Pacific.

And beneath its land and waters lie enormous natural resources.

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🌍 History often looks very different in hindsight.

A $7.2 million purchase that once seemed insignificant eventually became one of the most strategically important territorial acquisitions in modern history.

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🧵 THREAD:

How Russia Sold Alaska to the United States — and Why It May Have Been One of History’s Biggest Strategic Miscalculations🔥

1/ 🌎 Why is Alaska so important?

Alaska isn’t just a frozen piece of land.

It sits between North America, Russia and the Pacific, giving whoever controls it enormous strategic reach across the Arctic and North Pacific.

And beneath its land and waters lie enormous natural resources.

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📚 Sources & further reading:

• U.S. Department of State — Office of the Historian
• U.S. National Archives — Alaska Purchase documents
• Library of Congress — Alaska Purchase history
• Alaska Historical Society

Sources are provided for transparency and further reading.

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24/ 🇷🇺🇺🇸 One historical transaction changed the map of the world.

Russia received $7.2 million.

America received Alaska.

And history eventually turned that bargain into one of the most consequential land deals ever made.

Was selling Alaska actually Russia’s biggest strategic mistake—or was it a rational decision given Russia’s situation in 1867?

👇 What do you think?

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12/ 🔥 Then history delivered the plot twist.

For decades, Alaska received relatively little attention.

Then came gold.

The discovery of gold in the Yukon in 1896 transformed Alaska’s economic importance and helped prove that Seward’s critics had been wrong.

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23/ 🌎 Today, Alaska is much more than America’s largest state.

It is:

America’s Arctic gateway.

And its location gives Washington something Russia can no longer get back:

A permanent strategic foothold on the eastern side of the Bering Strait.

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11/ 🇷🇺 On October 18, 1867, the transfer officially took place at Sitka.

Russia’s centuries-long expansion into North America was over.

The United States now controlled a huge territory stretching deep into the Arctic.

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10/ 🇺🇸 The deal wasn’t immediately popular.

Critics mocked Alaska as:

“Seward’s Folly”
“Seward’s Icebox”

Many Americans couldn’t understand why Washington had spent millions buying what appeared to be a remote frozen wilderness.

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9/ 💰 On March 30, 1867, Russia and the United States reached a deal.

America would pay:

$7.2 MILLION

for Russia’s North American territory.

That’s less than 2 cents per acre.

The U.S. acquired nearly 600,000 square miles.

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8/ 🇺🇸 Then came William H. Seward.

The U.S. Secretary of State was an aggressive expansionist.

He believed America’s future depended on expanding its territory and its access to the Pacific and Asian markets.

Alaska fitted perfectly into that vision.

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7/ 🇷🇺 In fact, Russia offered Alaska to the United States in 1859.

Why America?

Because Washington was expanding westward—and Russia viewed the United States as a useful counterweight to British power in North America and the Pacific.

The U.S. Civil War temporarily delayed the deal.