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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 Feb 2020

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted John Daniel Davidson

      Some points from @johnddavidson on the history of the Alaska purchase, but Alaska had been a Seward hobbyhorse for years, sale had been discussed during the Civil War in negotiations over the Overland Telegraph line. Didn't come from nowhere in 1867.https://twitter.com/johnddavidson/status/1224697512235339776 …

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      John Daniel DavidsonVerified account @johnddavidson
      Adam Schiff’s mind is so addled with the Russian collusion hoax that he must have thought his Alaska-Russia example would be a real zinger. What he didn’t stop to consider was the historical irony in invoking the Russian sale of Alaska to the US. @FDRLST https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/04/sorry-adam-schiff-the-real-scandal-was-the-1867-purchase-of-alaska/ …
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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 Feb 2020

      If anything, the Russians had been more interested in selling Alaska for a decade before 1867 than we were in buying it. It was also part of the broader pictures of (1) strong US-Russian relations in the 1850s-60s & (2) tensions w/Britain & Canada.

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 Feb 2020

          The Crimea was over by 1856, but yes, they were still strapped for cash to modernize their navy.

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        2. John Daniel Davidson‏Verified account @johnddavidson 4 Feb 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          A big driver initially for the sale of Alaska was the fallout of the Crimean War and the desire to recoup costs by some in the Russian imperial court. But as I mentioned in an earlier tweet, those efforts went nowhere in the late 1850s.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 Feb 2020
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          Right. They went nowhere because we weren't ready to buy, and everything in Congress was entangled in sectional politics. But Seward would totally have made the deal even then.

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