how america accidentally stole $100 billion from russia #history

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]How did America accidentally steal billions of dollars from Russia? After losing the Crimean War, Russia was completely broke and feared Britain might take advantage of their weakness and seize Alaska. Seeing it as an economic liability and desperate for money, they decided to sell it to the United States for only 130 million in today's dollars. But 30 years later, gold was discovered, which triggered a massive gold rush. And unlike popular belief, Russia actually knew about the gold, but thought Alaska was too far to be economically viable. But what they didn't know was that it held massive oil reserves which would go on to generate over 150 billion for the United