How a European country became a Pacific power

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Far_East

Russian conquest of Siberia

Russian conquest of Outer Manchuria

Russian conquest of South Sakhalin and Kurils

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fleet_(Russia)

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

@Yaseen1 @925boy @vostok @Georg @mike2000 is back

 

[aziqbal]

and then the Russian sold Alaska

still cant believe they did that

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

and then the Russian sold Alaska

still cant believe they did that

Alaska was indefensible to British invasion from Canada.

 

[Nein]

Alaska was indefensible to British invasion from Canada.

It was also not profitable anymore and also too far to defend. Russians at that time made the right choice but in the long term a bad decision because alaska would have been a Russian entrance into America also the Oil resources too.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

It was also not profitable anymore and also too far to defend. Russians at that time made the right choice but in the long term a bad decision because alaska would have been a Russian entrance into America also the Oil resources too.

At the time Alaska only had a few hundred Russians. British Columbia was staging thousands of troops ready to invade Alaska. Either way, either Russia sell it to the US or lose it to the British. Their choice.