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

no you

Oh right

and I like hearing about it

also did you see my comment lol

I think so

```"Southern blacks just kind of run rampant across burning and looting, and setting up their own little socialist pocket states." - Just like our own timeline. You are right about Turtledove using real events for the 919 timeline.```

I thought that was pretty clever

Not annexing the Phillipines was a really really good idea

Cuba I think might have worked out

yeah, the Phillipines were a disaster

Cuba sure

I think Cuba has gotten a lot blacker since the revolution

I've heard so too

A lot of whites left