Quote Originally Posted by Wales-Bales View Post
Alaska is 53 miles away from the Russia mainland and the US Little Diomede Island is 2.4 miles away from the Russian Big Diomede Island, so they could literally have a battle using peashooters!
Empty land doesn’t typically tend to start invasions. But if the few thousand people in Lavrentiya and Provideniya did fancy their chances against the townsfolk of Nome, I don’t think the Americans would need to send an aircraft carrier along.

For settlements bigger than Rhiwbina, there’s about 2,500 miles between Anchorage and Yakutsk.