I guess it is the case the there is no way that territory could have been maintained

I mean its a big territory I don't think it was ever particularly profitable

Because it wasn't properly settled

I mean the US eventually did invade a bunch of colonies

although if Louisiana ended up as a free french territory that might have been more advantageous than the US owning it

The trade there was profitable

like Florida

I mean the current state not the rest of the region

I think eventually the US would have conquered it

yeah maybe and then there would have been bad blood

perhaps Napoleon avoided this in his deal

Like with Florida or the Mexican Secession

I mean you have a point Charlemange

just trying to present the opposite side

It might've but the impetus for US expansionism was the necessity for balance created through the purchase in the first place
Without the initial disturbance America might not have expanded at all

Balance as in slave and free states

I think they probably would have, Alaska is another issue though

I have ne idea what would have happened

if Russia didn't sell it

Japs

would have taken it

no doubt

between the world wars

or before

Russia would never cede it to Canada
No sale to the US means them holding on to it

Maybe the UK would have taken it during the civil war

Seems unlikely unless somehow the locals would've been Bolsheviks

I think there were only ever 700 settlers

I expect that Alaska would have ultimately ended up in the hands of the US via WWII

They did convert the natives though

Yes but negligable settlers

The U.S. would have made the Alaskan territory part of lend-lease or otherwise for it's assistance to Russia

I think longterm it would've become more Russian like Siberia did become

I wish they had just annexed cuba

I did enjoy your video yesterday

thanks

I have not read those books

However during the civil war it could've hosted a government in exile

Oh are you talking to someone else

lol

but I did watch Alt History Hub do videos on it