While we were preoccupied with helping the British in their fight against Argentina, the Falklands War, the Soviet Union, starts making noises about Alaska, printing articles and editorials in Pravda, that "The Imperialist United States" stole Alaska from the Russian people, and that they want it back. If we don't return Alaska to the Soviet Union, that there'd be serious
consequences. The President of the Soviet Union, General Anatoly Bukharin,
who'd overthrown the Politburo and replaced it with a Latin American style
junta, gives the United States two weeks to return Alaska, or else. The United
States, insulted by the Soviet demand, makes its position known. The President of the United States goes on television and says that the Soviets are
over a hundred years too late in demanding the return of Alaska. He says it's
ours and we're going to keep it. The Soviet Union counters that the Alaska Purchase is null and void because Secretary of State Seward bribed the Czar's
government. The Soviet Union then moves Spetznaz troops from Siberia to the
Aleutian Islands. The United States responds by mobilizing its troops in Alaska at Elmendorf Air Force Base and Fort Richardson. The President also
mobilizes SAC's B-52 fleet, based at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, and at other major SAC bases in the country. The Red Army, and
Soviet Navy Infantry, then invade the Alaskan mainland and move toward the Alaska Pipeline and the port of Valdez. Then someone, a Red Army soldier according to the Americans, an American soldier, according to the Soviets, opens fire, and the war is on. The Soviet Union and the United States are at war over Alaska.