David S Poepoe
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IIRC, the Doctrine was also interpreted to prohibit any transfer of a European territory from one European nation to another.
And exactly what will the Americans be able to do? Nothing.
IIRC, the Doctrine was also interpreted to prohibit any transfer of a European territory from one European nation to another.
mutual non-aggression pact between the HBC and the RAC in 1854-56, the Russians knew they could not hold it against the British in the event of a future war.
In the late 1860s, the French and Spanish had both just been kicked out of the Americas yet again (French from Mexico and Spanish on Hispaniola/Dominican Republic and the Chincha Islands); neither of them would have had any interest, and both had far more reasonable places to the spend their money closer to home.
The Japanese also had more important things to do, and places to spend their money, closer to home...like the Home Islands themselves.
None of the other European nations had any interest; none of the other American (north and south) nations had the resources.
The US had the resources and the strategic need, and the Russians saw the shared interests with the US in this period; positing anything else but the historical results is really a stretch...
It's like arguing the British would not have picked up the Suez Canal concession when it came up for sale. They had the means and the motive; all they needed was the opportunity.
Same for the US and Alaska.
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And exactly what will the Americans be able to do? Nothing.
Lets say Russia sells Alaska to Spain or France instead of the US? How would this affect Russian-American Relations? Would it be severe or minor?