The US Plan to Annex Siberia

One of the reasons for the Russians’ deep-seated animosity towards the US is the belief that Americans want to steal Russia’s precious oil and gas. The country’s leaders are convinced that Madeleine Albright came up with the idea to annex Russia’s Siberia and Far East, and the subsequent US leaders are carrying out Albright’s plan. How did Russians arrive at the conclusion that Albright was planning to invade? Here is how:

Albright’s thinking on the matter, it turns out, was originally “unearthed” by a former KGB general who had worked for the organization’s special paranormal studies bureau. In 2006, the elderly general claimed on TV that his unit had telepathically connected with Albright’s thoughts in 1999—by carefully studying photographs of her—and found that she pathologically hates all Slavs, and had designs on Russia’s mineral wealth.

Insanity is contagious, especially when the delusional system it feeds on is flattering to one’s sense of importance. I have personally talked to two Russians who are absolutely convinced that Obama is trying to put in place Albright’s annexation scheme and is somehow using Ukraine to do that. The logistics of using Ukraine to annex the Far East will befuddle anybody who has ever found oneself in the vicinity of a map but this argument never seems to make an impression on the believers in the annexation myth.