If President is going to be trumpLater at the end of this week, Vladimir is talking about the land swap with PutinPerhaps he can get some American land back, too?
Friday’s dialogue in Alaska provides a historical and welcome opportunity to synergy in our bilateral relations with Russia. We should try to get with our neighbors, although they can be difficult. Trump is right to do so in a war in a war that should never be started.
However, the possibility of establishing neighboring relations again while interacting on the Ukrainian region is also frozen, but now the relevant issues between us are very placed, where these leaders, and actually meet our own two countries-Arctic. Accepting them to solve and working will cost a long way towards doing ground work for a better future among our nations.
Yesterday discovered the 144th anniversary and claimed Wrangle Island US Coast Guard on August 12, 1881Wrangle is a large island located in the Arctic Ocean About 270 sea miles north of the coast of AlaskaCombined about the size of delaware and road island. That day was discovered by a landing party from USRC Corvin, a patrol cutter of Biring C Petrol – then the US Government Authority in the youth area of Alaska.
Landing party, which included famous naturalists John Muir hoisted the American flag and claimed the island in the name of the President of the United StatesThe island was surveyed later that month USS RodgersAnd later it was included Official US government documents and records,
Four decades later, however, on On August 20, 1924, Vranzel was seized Soviet Icebreaker Red October by Bolsheviks. American settlers were arrested, closed and the prisoner was taken to Vladivostoc. Leaders of nam-based settlers Death in custody,
There were no diplomatic relations with America Soviet Union by 1933 And there are Never accepted Russia’s claim of ownership.
The same day goes to the west for the long islands, which was Was discovered months ago By the crew of USS genenet, which was Coast Guard Cutter Corvin when lost in high arctic It was sent to save.
Today, the Wrangle is the “Gibraltar” of the North Sea Marg, which offers a major choke point on its eastern entrance and hosts a modern naval base. Russia projects emphasize Arctic and American interestsAs leaders have discussed demonetisation of Ukraine, perhaps the Wrangle can also be deleted and a joint US-Russian scientific sector and monument can be built for peace among our nations?
Alternatively, if the US is going to continue acquaintances for Russian control, it is probably the time that Russia should compensate for what their Soviet predecessors took by force. One way they can do so that they have to sign their frozen sovereign assets in the US – About $ 210 billionThis will lead a long way to resume American taxpayers $ 350 billion we have lostA great increase in our national debt, to finance a fatal war that should never have been.
For those who despise such history and say that Americans do not have skin skin in these islands, should help in traveling anapolis, MD. There, they can climb to the highest point on the tallest hill in the cemetery with a visual scene of the US Navy Academy. There is a monument that dwarfs every other around it on this holy ground – This is for 1879-1881 USS Gennet Arctic Exploreing MissionAnd 20 men who were killed in their search.
Although remembered by some people today, the story of USS Gennet and its rescue party was an epic story known in America at that time, heavy chronic In thousands of people investigating Congress investigation He followed.
Subsequently, things between our countries were also very different. America’s discovery of new islands in the north of Russia was welcomed with enthusiasm there, with Zar Alexander III extended To the remaining people A grand reception in St. Petersburg.
As Trump works to secure the protection of our hemisphere, America’s outer island. It is especially in the Arctic, it is sure to see increased trade, commerce and geopolitical rivalry in the coming decades. If we do not secure our circumference, we put our motherland at risk.
And other people take notice. Just this last week, Five Chinese Arctic Research Ships East defense establishment through the Bering Sea and through the past of Aleutian islands In an untouchable And Unlike – WWII Combat and American Sacrifice sites – Today are abandoned or dissatisfied.
In American history, the story of America’s Lost Arctic Islands makes a very suspicious difference: this is the only time America has produced land in front of a hostile force It has failed to recover later.
Today, however, a recovery through interaction and dialogue can still be possible. Finding a peaceful solution for Wrangle and D Long Islands will be a very positive step in establishing a new relationship between Russian Federation and America
Thomas e. Dan is the CEO of American Debreak, a former US Treasury Officer Members of the US Arctic Research Commission.
