The Russians are clubfooted when it comes to messaging. They haven’t learned much since the Soviet era, or are rhetorically still in it. So their spox and pundits come off as puffed-up buffoons who write checks with their mouths that Russian power can’t cash.

So it is with the Ukrainian War. The latest? In retaliation for our support of Ukraine, one of their congressmen wants Alaska back. Yup, he was serious. That is the level of intellectual sophistication present in the present Russian government.

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FNC: “A Russian lawmaker made an outlandish demand over the weekend that the United States return Alaska and a historic settlement in California, in addition to paying reparations to Russia over crippling American-led sanctions that have put Moscow’s economy in a tailspin.

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Oleg Matveychev, a member of the State Duma, outlined on Russian state television a set of demands for the U.S. and Ukraine after Kiv’s ‘demilitarization is completed,’ the Express newspaper in the United Kingdom reported.

The demands include the return of Alaska, which the U.S. purchased from the Russian Empire in 1867 as part of the Alaska Purchase, and the former Russian settlement of Fort Ross, California, 90 miles north of San Francisco.”

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“We should be thinking about reparations from the damage that was caused by the sanctions and the war itself, because that too costs money and we should get it back,” Matveychev said Sunday in an interview.

He also desires the “return of all Russian properties, those of the Russian empire, the Soviet Union and current Russia, which has been seized in the United States, and so on.” He was also asked if he actually meant Alaska and Fort Ross. “That was my next point. As well as the Antarctic,” he said. “We discovered it, so it belongs to us.”

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Along with demands for Alaska, the Russians have also sanctioned many high-level officials in the Biden administration. Jen Psaki comments, “I would say, is that won’t surprise any of you, that none of us are planning tourist trips to Russia,” she said. “None of us have bank accounts that we won’t be able to access.” Jen, I’d check with your boss on that last point.