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00:00As US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet on US soil in Anchorage,

00:08Alaska for high-stakes talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, history has come full circle

00:15in a deeply symbolic way. The very ground where the two world leaders are sitting across from

00:22each other, Joint Base Almendorf-Richardson, Alaska's largest military base, once belonged

00:29to the Russian Empire. Now, over 150 years later, the former imperial outpost has become a strategic

00:38American stronghold and the unlikely backdrop for a modern geopolitical summit. Russia's control of

00:46Alaska began in the 18th century under Saar Peter the Great, who dispatched Danish explorer Vitas Bering

00:53in 1725 to explore the North Pacific. By the late 1700s, Russia had formalized its colonial presence

01:02with the creation of the Russian-American Company in 1799. Sitka, established on the southeastern coast,

01:10became the colonial capital. But the harsh environment, distance from St. Petersburg and

01:16resistance from Alaska's indigenous peoples made Russian colonization an expensive and uncertain

01:23endeavor. By the mid-1800s, Alaska was becoming more of a burden than a price.

01:31Saar Alexander II's solution was to sell Alaska before it could be lost in war or fall into British

01:39hands. At the same time, the US was expanding westward with a vision of continental reach.

01:44Secretary of State, William Seward, an ardent expansionist, saw the Russian offer as a strategic

01:51bargain. On March 30, 1867, the US agreed to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million, or roughly

02:01two cents an acre. The treaty was signed by Seward and Russian envoy Edouard Deshtoical, officially

02:08transferring nearly 600,000 square miles of land to the US.

02:13Many Americans mocked the deal. Newspapers called it Seward's Folly and Seward's Icebox,

02:21dismissing Alaska as a frozen wilderness of little value.

02:26Now, as Trump and Putin are in Anchorage for critical talks on Ukraine, the symbolism of the

02:31location is hard to ignore. Separated by just 55 miles across the Bering Strait, Alaska remains the US

02:39frontline with Russia. It is home to elite F-22 and F-35 fighter squadrons, early warning radar systems,

02:47and the legacy of surveillance stretching back to the Cold War. Indeed, Russia's ambitions in the Arctic,

02:54its history in Alaska, and the war in Ukraine are deeply interwoven. And for Trump, holding a summit in a place

03:01America once bought from Russia may be a calculated message of dominance, diplomacy or both.

03:09Whether today's meeting results in a breakthrough or a standoff, the summit setting offers a powerful

03:14reminder of how history moves in cycles. The question now isn't what Russia gave up,

03:21but whether it is ready to give up something else, the war in Ukraine.

Trump and Putin Meet on Land Once Owned by Russia in Alaska | Trump-Putin Face Off on U.S. Soil

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