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When you're the Boss of an aggressive, revanchist, neo-tsarist Russian state like Putin, demanding Alaska back just comes with the territory ... "
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Comes with the Territory Meaning Definition: To be an integral part of something. People will use this expression when describing a negative aspect of an action or thing. For instance, if you are an auto mechanic, you might say getting your hands dirty comes with the territory.

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come with the territory.
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come with the territory.
To typically accompany a certain situation; to be a usual consequence or related issue.
When you're the boss, staying late at the office just comes with the territory.
Sleep deprivation comes with the territory of being a new parent.
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come with the territory and go with the territory
Fig. to be expected under circumstances like this. (Alludes to the details and difficulties attendant to something like the assignment of a specific sales territory to a salesperson. When one accepts the assignment, one accepts the problems.) There is a lot of paperwork in this job. Oh, well, I guess it comes with the territory. There are problems, but they go with the territory.
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come with the territory
Accompany specific circumstances, as in You may not like the new coach, but he comes with the territory, or As the editor, you may not like listening to complaints, but it comes with the territory. This term uses territory in the sense of "sales district," and the phrase originally meant that traveling sales personnel had to accept whatever problems or perquisites they found in their assigned region. Today it is applied in many other contexts. [Second half of 1900s]
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;come/;go with the ;territory be a normal and accepted part of a particular job, situation, etc: As a doctor, he has to work long hours and some weekends, but that goes with the territory I suppose.
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comes with the territory
Is part of specific conditions or circumstances. For example, “You may not like dealing with difficult customers, but it comes with the territory.” The term, which originally alluded to traveling salesmen who had to accept whatever they found in their assigned region, or “territory,” soon came to be extended to other areas. It dates from the second half of the twentieth century.
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US Laughs Off Putin Alaska Reports: 'He's Not Getting It Back'
Story by David Brennan •
01/23/24
Russian President Vladimir Putin is pictured during an awards ceremony on January 16, 2024 in Odintsovo, west of Moscow, Russia. The president last week ordered authorities to collect information on Russian assets abroad.

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The U.S. State Department has dismissed reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin's revanchism may extend as far as Alaska after the Kremlin issued a new decree regarding historic Russian real estate holdings abroad.

"I speak for all of us in the U.S. government to say that certainly, he is not getting it back," State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said to laughter during a press briefing on Monday when asked about Moscow's purported claim on Alaska.

Putin last week signed a new measure directing and funding the presidential administration and the Foreign Ministry in "searching for real estate in the Russian Federation, the former Russian Empire, the former USSR, proper registration of rights...and legal protection of this property."

The scope and intention of the measure is not clear. Newsweek reached out to the Kremlin by email for comment.

Ultranationalist bloggers seized on the vaguely worded document to call for fresh Russian aggression against countries that now control once-Russian land, among them the United States, NATO states in eastern and central Europe, and several Central Asian nations.

Pro-Ukrainian social media accounts, meanwhile, incorrectly claimed that Putin had used the decree to declare the 1867 Russian sale of Alaska to the U.S. as illegal or illegitimate.

Newsweek reached out to the State Department and the White House by email to request comment on Putin's decree.

The Russian president has previously said his compatriots should "not get worked up" about the "inexpensive" deal, though allies of his have also suggested that Moscow may re-open the issue as a territorial dispute.

Dmitry Medvedev—a former Russian president and prime minister who was once considered a potential successor to Putin before being sidelined—also joked about Moscow's purported claim on Alaska in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

"This is it, then," wrote Medvedev, who was once considered a technocratic, liberal counterweight to Putin but has sought to reinvent himself as an ultra-hawkish supporter of the war on Ukraine. "We've been waiting for it to be returned any day. Now war is unavoidable," Medvedev added, ending his post with a laughing emoji.

Revanchism is at the core of Putin's neo-tsarist Russian state and one of the driving forces behind Moscow's repeated aggression against Ukraine over the past decade, whether in Crimea, in the eastern Donbas region in 2014, or his claimed annexation of much of southern and eastern Ukraine in 2022.

In 2021, Putin published a long essay declaring that Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are all effectively one people and dismissing the concept of an independent Ukrainian nation.

"Step by step, Ukraine was dragged into a dangerous geopolitical game aimed at turning Ukraine into a barrier between Europe and Russia, a springboard against Russia," Putin wrote, while Russian forces began a major buildup along Ukrainian frontiers.

"Inevitably, there came a time when the concept of 'Ukraine is not Russia' was no longer an option. There was a need for the 'anti-Russia' concept which we will never accept," he said.

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State Department responds to Putin on Alaska: ‘Certainly he’s not getting it back’
Story by Miranda Nazzaro  •
1/24/24

he State Department on Monday brushed off reports of Russian President Vladimir Putin ordering his government to look into the nation’s former “real estate” abroad, saying Alaska would be staying in American hands.

Putin signed a new decree last week to allocate funds for the research and registration of Russian property overseas, including that in former territories of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, Russian state media TASS reported.


The decree, which comes amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, did not specifically mention Alaska, though it caught the attention of military bloggers, who argued Putin was using the decree to declare the 1867 Russian sale of the Last Frontier State to the U.S. is illegal.
“Well, I think I can speak for all of us in the U.S. government to say that certainly he’s not getting it back,” State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said during a Monday press briefing, prompting laughter from his audience.

The Institute for the Study of War last week noted the “exact parameters of what constitutes current or historical Russia property are unclear.”

“The Kremlin may use the ‘protection’ of its claimed property in countries outside of its internationally recognized borders to forward soft power mechanisms in post-Soviet and neighboring states ultimately aimed at internal destabilization,” the institute wrote in an assessment of the Russian offensive campaign.

Related video: U.S. State Department Responds to Putin Declaring Sale of Alaska to U.S. as "Illegitimate" (Dailymotion)

It pointed to a Telegram post from a military blogger who suggested Russia could start enacting the law in Alaska and parts of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Putin, in a 2014 question-and-answer with a studio audience, called the 1867 sale “inexpensive,” and argued people should “not get worked about it.”

“We can calculate the equivalent amount, but it was definitely inexpensive. Russia is a northern country with 70 percent of its territory located in the north and the far north. Alaska is not located in the southern hemisphere, either, is it? It’s cold out there as well. Let’s not get worked up about it, all right?” he said.

While Putin appeared to downplay the sale, Russian lawmaker Sergei Mironov in December hinted at Moscow reclaiming its previous territories in the future.

“Did you want a new world order? Receive and sign. Venezuela annexed a 24th state, Guyana-Essequibo. This is happening right under the nose of the once great hegemon of the United States. All that remains is for Mexico to return Texas and the rest. It’s time for Americans to think about their future. And also about Alaska,” Mironov wrote on X, formerly Twitter, last month.


Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev joked about the State Department’s response later Monday, writing on X, “According to a State Department representative, Russia is not getting back Alaska, which was sold to the U.S. in the 19th century. This is it, then. And we’ve been waiting for it to be returned any day. Now war is unavoidable,” with a laughing emoji attached.