Putin’s lapdog MPs threaten to TAKE BACK Alaska from the US

Vladimir Putin’s lapdog parliament has threatened to take Alaska back from the US if seized Russian assets are used to rebuild Ukraine after the war.

Vyacheslav Volodin, Speaker of the State Duma and Russia’s highest-ranking politician, made the astonishing suggestion at a parliamentary meeting on Wednesday.

Before it starts spending the seized Russian money, America must remember “that we also get something in return,” Volodin said, telling MPs to “keep an eye on Alaska.”

The Russian Empire had a number of outposts in North America that it founded in the 18th and 19th centuries, the first and longest-lasting being in Alaska.

But Tsar Alexander II sold the area to President Andrew Johnson in 1867 for $7.2 million — $144 million in today’s money — and it became a state in 1959.

“Decency is not a weakness,” Volodin told the House of Representatives on Wednesday. “We always have something to answer with.

“Always remember America, there is a part of its territory…Alaska.”

He warned: “If they try to sell our resources abroad, make them think before they do so that we can get something in return.”

He ordered other MPs to “keep an eye on Alaska.”

President Zelensky and his allies have increased calls in recent weeks to use seized Russian assets to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction, pending a formal proposal to the UN in September.

Ukraine estimates the cost of rebuilding the damage to the country — as things stand — at a dazzling $750 billion.

To ease the burden on both Kiev and its allies, politicians say seized Russian assets — including $300 billion in foreign exchange reserves — should contribute to the final settlement.

The idea has gained some appeal. Canada recently passed laws allowing the liquidation of Russian assets for reparations, and similar laws are being discussed by EU leaders Urusula von der Leyen and Charles Michel.

That has caused a furore in Russia, with MP Pyotr Tolstoy — great-great-grandson of writer Leo Tolstoy and deputy speaker of the State Duma — suggested Wednesday that a referendum should be held in Alaska on returning to Russia.

Sham referendums are usually held by Russians in the territory it plans to usurp on the mainland.

A similar vote took place in Crimea in 2014 — with 96 percent of people voting to join Russia, coerced by troops stationed there — before it was annexed to the mainland.

It is thought that Russia will try a similar tactic in the areas of Ukraine it has occupied since the start of the war to try and take permanent possession of them: Kherson and Mariupol to the south, and Luhansk province to the east.

Kremlin-appointed leaders were rumored to be preparing votes in the run-up to Russia’s Victory Day in May, but failed to materialize amid partisan attacks.

It is not the first time Russia has made threats against Alaska under the guise of ‘taking back’ its ‘historical territory’.

In March, just weeks after Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Putin’s “spider doctor” Oleg Matveychev demanded the return of the US not only to Alaska, but also to Fort Ross in California – a 19th-century settlement just outside modern-day San Francisco.

On a state media propaganda channel, Matveychev demanded “the return of all Russian property, that of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and present-day Russia, which has been seized in the United States.”

Those properties included Alaska and Fort Ross, he added, before throwing in all of Antarctica for good measure.

“We found it, so it’s ours,” he said.