Kremlin, Racked by Separatist Ferment, Sows Division and Decolonization Everywhere — Except at Home
The world’s last colonial empire, though, is Putin’s Russia.
Texas should secede. Alaska should come home to Mother Russia. It’s presidential election time again in America, and Kremlin leaders again are preaching the breakup of the United States.
Russia’s former president, Dmitry Medvedev, recently joined a Kremlin chorus supporting Texas independence. A Russian state television host, Tigran Keosayan, said of Alaska, which Russia sold to America in 1867: “Secession from the United States is half the battle. The main thing is to join Russia.”
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