If they are going to actually try to take ground they have to have feet on the ground and lots of them. Alaska is a strategic gemstone for North America and is the natural place to make the landing and hold a forward position while tearing up the civilian clogged underbelly of America further south. It is also the natural place to hold and attack from by us. It is probably the most strategically valuable place on the planet, for us or for the other side.
Right now Russia is a threat. Why? Because Russia is always a threat to its neighbors. Anyone crazy enough to think otherwise is well crazy. There is a reason they have the largest country. Why when you look at a map of Alaska there is no roads out to the Bering Sea?
