Today Crimea, tomorrow Alaska?
Lowell Sun | 3/19/2014 | Peter Lucas
Let's hope he doesn't want Alaska back.
I mean, if Czar Vladimir Putin decides that Russia was really screwed when it sold the vast expanse of Alaska to the United States for a measly $7.2 million back in 1867, he may now want to nullify the deal.
Treaties, contracts and deals mean nothing to the guy.
The man is on a role. He is scooping up pieces of the former Soviet Union as though he were old Communist Czar Joe Stalin. Old Joe gobbled up countries at the end of World War II as though they were war souvenirs. That set off the Cold War.
That long war, won by the U.S. and the West, led to the breakup of the old Soviet Union in 1991. Now Vlad the Great, who could be the grandson Stalin never knew he had, is trying to put it back together again. Thanks to the flexible, overmatched waif in the White House, he is succeeding