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German Chancellor Bismarck once noted, "There is a special providence that watches over fools, drunkards, and the United States of America."
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Also the other buyer would have been England and they hated them more.
Sure, the UK would have been the other "buyer".
It made sense for Russia to sell Alaska to the USA. The USA was likely the only country who could keep the land if the UK decided to challenge the claim. And, while remote, Alaska was next to Russia and having a friendly maritime neighbor would be beneficial for the country.
Meanwhile, Russia and the UK were in the middle of playing the Great Game in central Asia and had recently fought a war against each other. It is likely that the next war would include Alaska and the UK could likely use local Canadian forces to take the land, making it easy to lose and hard to defend should another was break out.