Sergei Lavrov, Putin's top taunter, farts in Trump's general direction as Dick Force One touches down in Alaska
Putin's top diplomat appeared to be taunting President Donald Trump as the Russian arrived in Alaska for a high-stakes summit to discuss the war in Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived Friday morning for the talks wearing a sweater emblazoned with the inscription “CCCP" — the Cyrillic abbreviation for USSR — in an apparent reference to Russian propagandists fantasizing about reclaiming Alaska during negotiations to end the war, reported The Daily Beast.
Alaska had been part of the Russian Empire before the United States purchased it in 1867 for $7.2 million under President Andrew Johnson. It attained statehood in 1959, but many Russians have been taught the myth that the land was stolen through treachery.
Pro-Kremlin broadcaster Olga Skabeyeva repeated the myth "Alaska is ours" during a July 2024 episode of the Russia-1 talk show "60 Minutes," six months after the U.S. State Department addressed a decree from Russia that some interpreted as a signal the state would be clawed back through negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
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