Anchor ruzz before Trump-Puding Summit – But “Please Don’t Sell to Us” | Alaska

IT will be one of the last good summer weekends in Anchorage, Alaska – the summit of salmon runs and the berry season – residents hope that Summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Friday Not ruining it for them.

“I look forward to taking a boat on the water in Prince William Sound,” said Andy Moderow, who works in a conservation nonprofit in Anchorage.

Jeff Landfield Alaska landmines “We had a nice summer. Completed the project, went out hunting, fishing, camping, four wheels. [had] It’s better not to fuck my plan. ‘”

The largest city AlaskaAnchorage is north of Oslo and St Petersburg. With a population of less than 300,000, its low downtown sits on a mud plane above the chef’s entrance at the bottom of the Kugachi Mountains. Its neighborhood sprawls across the wide street between the above-ground shopping malls and birch shelves. Its downtown shops sell Alaska local crafts, bears and moose-themed souvenirs.

resident refer to Colleen Heaney-Mead said it was a “low 48” against the rest of the United States and regarded itself as an “independent winning streak.”

“We don’t want to be part of anything that’s going on there,” she said, discussing the Trump administration’s actions in a row. “We don’t have to do everything they do.”

Friday’s summit will not mark the city’s first time becoming a high-profile diplomatic environment. Chinese President Xi Jinping stopped in the city in 2017. Have a meal On the way back at the meeting with Trump, Florida, on the king salmon and crab bisque.

Two years later, Anchorage became the venue for tense meetings between Chinese diplomats and Biden administration officials Public reprimand Human rights violations and systemic racism.

But this time, the situation is different.

In Alaska, Russia is not an abstract enemy, but a close relative. Its jet Buzzing Alaska airspace, its government is said to be Sink Alaska fishermen. The residents of the anchorage were excited about the high-profile visit and were frightened by the implications of the visit.

“You feel Anchorage is back on the map somehow, and I think everyone loves it,” said Hollis French, a retired state senator who serves on the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

“Even though I had dinner with two friends last night, we were both pessimistic and skeptical. You know, I think we hope Trump will do something horrible.”

Trump announces that he will meet Putin in “Russia”, which also triggers an alarm bell in a region Part of the Russian Empire Until sold to the United States in 1867.

“The Alaska people reacted: ‘Please don’t sell it to us,’” Heaney-Mead said.

Moderow, who grew up in the late Cold War, said that even Alaska politicians (such as 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin), radiation shelter and nuclear exercises were one of his earliest memories, sometimes short distances between the two countries.

“Russia is a neighbor,” he said. “If you grew up in a governor, you’ll know Russiaand it’s close – though Sarah Palin kind of surpassed it in the debate. ”

France agreed: “We know they are hostile neighbors. We know they explored our defense and we responded accordingly. I think most people know that the country’s leaders are not the embodiment of the country, but the embodiment of the country. [Putin] Of course, his people shrank. So, I think the Alaskas are on guard against him. ”

Landfield sect Over the years, Russians escaped the repressed Russian Orthodox churches were taken to Alaska. “People don’t like Putin. It’s not Russian or Russian,” he said. “I don’t think Russia is our enemy.”

Matt Acuña Buxton, a long-time political journalist in Anchorage, said Putin International Criminal Court (ICC) Arrest Warrant – Visiting the city.

“Many Alaskas really understand Putin and Putin’s administration are not actually friends with Alaskas,” he said.

There is a White House Send a signal “The summit will be held at the military base in the Northeast anchorage, which is a disappointment for the locals because “nothing happens on the base is like what really happens in Alaska,” Mead said. ”

This has not stopped anchorage residents from offering other ideas: 49% of respondents are polling From Alaska landmines Sarah Palin’s House”.

Another anchorage newsletter, Alaska Memorandum, proposes that Trump and Putin can hike flat mountains, a “typical anchorage date night” or stay in the middle of Skinny Dick Inn On the road to Fairbanks.

“It’s a meme-rich environment,” Randfield said.

Acuña Buxton Alaska Memorandumsaying that this irony provides Alaska people with an impossible situation in which “dystopia” and Trump will trade Alaska in Russia.

“Ultimately, in the overall picture of things, it’s about Ukraine,” he said of the Trump-Putin meeting.[But] I think for the Alaska people it’s like a little bit of a joke on our eyes. ”