Obligatory Sarah Palin joke aside, I’d imagine that there’s always been at least some tensions around the Bering Strait, and things following the Ukraine invasion have probably been at least somewhat different.
Has there been an increase in personnel around military bases? Have Russian products been harder to come by in stores? Have friends and relatives been separated because of where they were and the time they were there?
Obviously, I’m not expecting it to be Mad Max up there, but I’d assume it’s somewhat different now than it’s been in the years leading up to it.
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What???
Despite the geographical proximity between Alaska and Russia (Siberia)… there is not a lot of cultural exchange between those two to have been noticeably affected.
11th Airborne is back and based out of Fort Richardson, so yes there’s a good bit more military activity.
It’s really empty up there. Like, really, really empty. Check out this video on what things are like on the Diomedes islands that lie between Russia and Alaska. https://youtu.be/1lteLTD_Efs?si=KcPYE53DBBbXb56N
I am guessing that OP thinks Alaska has strong ties with Russia considering it was formally a Russian colony. The reality is that they do not; only 1.1% of Alaskans (8,000+ people) consider themselves as Russian-American; that is smaller than North Dakota which has 2.4% of its citizens (19,000+ people) identified as Russian-American ([source](https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/russian-population-by-state)).
The military bases are operating as normal and there is no real amount of Russian products sold in Alaska (or anywhere else in the United States), even before the Ukraine invasion. People can freely visit, live, or do whatever in Alaska like the rest of the states, nothing has changed.
The areas that are geographically close are extremely isolated.
There are dozens upon dozens of places in the US that are more impacted.
Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like a spy trying to to get Intel on our military preparedness?
Something to remember with Russia is that like 80% of the population lives in the European part of Russia – almost the entire Asian part (so every part within thousands of miles of Alaska) is extremely sparsely populated, not unlike northern Canada or Alaska itself. Honestly, things on the Russian side of the strait have probably barely changed since the war began, because they’re not going to be conscripting the moose and bears which are all that live there.
Nope. Most of Russia’s population is in Europe and most of Alaska’s population is in the southern part of the state.
Well number one, we don’t hear from Alaska much not a lot of people live there. And Number B, it’s still part of the US so it’s NOT gonna fuck with Russia in friendly way.
No, Alaska is virtually uninhabited in the west and north