━━━━━━━ALASKA━━━━━━━ Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan confirmed that eleven warships from #China and #Russia conducted patrols near the Alaskan coast earlier this week, noting that the move "is yet another reminder that we have entered a new era of authoritarian aggression led by the dictators in Beijing and Moscow." "It is a historical first...The move as highly provocative," The Wall Street Journal wrote citing Brent Sadler, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a retired Navy captain. The flotilla was closely monitored by four American destroyers that were swiftly deployed in the area to track the movement of Russian and Chinese ships. It is said that the ships never crossed US territorial waters. "United States will not hesitate to protect and defend our vital national interests in Alaska," the senator said.