In 1947, the United States and the Soviet Union, now known as Russia, started an ongoing power struggle.
The United States entered a war with communism in the Soviet Union, fearing the spread to Westernized countries. With tensions still high coming out of World War II, both countries were at each other’s throats.
An arms race was encouraged by American officials to promote the use of specialized weaponry. This led to the creation of nuclear war, with the Soviet Union creating an atom bomb, to which President Truman responded with America’s bomb in 1952, the hydrogen bomb. With such destructive weapons now at the hands of world leaders, tensions were higher than they had ever been.
Fast-forward to the 1980s, the threat to the American people with the Soviet Union is still very high but regrouping to a more positive outlook. President Ronald Reagan was just elected, and the country was coming off an election high. The American people felt peace on the horizon for the first time in over 30 years. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the general secretary of the Soviet Union and negotiations with Reagan about abolishing all nuclear weapons usage were finally in motion.
By 1991, the Cold War officially ended, bringing the destruction of the Berlin Wall, which mended the east and west sides of Berlin as one. Within the last ten years, Russia and the United States have stayed enemies.
Russia has made public statements about its hate for the U.S. and our elected officials. In an interview, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that “U.S. President Joe Biden’s remarks about him reflect the past and current problems of the United States.”
With ongoing words of tension being thrown around from both Putin and Biden. Biden said in 2021 “[Putin] will pay the price.”
On Sept. 18, CBS reported “Russian ships were spotted off the coast of Alaska for the fourth time. To date, we’ve had eight Russian military planes and four navy vessels, including two submarines, come close to Alaska in the past week.”
Russian espionage has been an issue for many Americans dating back to when the war began. While espionage has yet to be detected in the 2024 presidential election for the United States, it was a devastating attack by Russia.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command said it detected and tracked Russian military planes operating off Alaska over four days. There were two planes each on Sept. 11, Sept. 13, Sept. 14, and Sept. 15. This development comes after news that the U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching American territory.
The Pentagon has released a statement confirming there is no cause for alarm and the situation is being
