Constructing a tunnel throughout the Bering Strait, from Russia to Alaska, is an concept that’s been round since a minimum of the Fifties. And the Kremlin apparently thinks it’s ok to revive, if the CEO of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund is to be believed.
Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of the Russian Direct Funding Fund, tweeted the concept on Thursday, full with a map of the place the tunnel could be constructed. And he thinks that billionaire oligarch Elon Musk could be the person to do it.
“@elonmusk, think about connecting the US and Russia, the Americas and the Afro-Eurasia with the Putin-Trump Tunnel – a 70-mile hyperlink symbolizing unity. Conventional prices are $65B+, however @boringcompany’s tech may cut back it to <$8B. Let’s construct a future collectively!” Dmitriev tweeted.
President Donald Trump was requested in regards to the proposal by a reporter on the White Home throughout a press availability with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Friday. Trump referred to as the concept an “attention-grabbing one,” however stated, “We’ll have to consider that. I hadn’t heard that,” in accordance with CNBC.
How possible would a tunnel be? Theoretically, it’s solely doable. However Elon Musk may not be the man to do it. The billionaire CEO has over-promised and under-delivered on the subject of his tunneling initiatives. Musk has typically floated massive concepts, however when it comes time to truly do them, he’ll continuously produce one thing a lot much less unbelievable.
Dmitriev tweeted a couple of proposal for a “Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge,” which was imagined within the early Nineteen Sixties.
From the Soviet JFK docs launched by @RepLuna: Kennedy–Khrushchev World Peace Bridge “may and must be constructed between Alaska and Russia without delay.”
With trendy @boringcompany expertise this will grow to be a Putin-Trump tunnel connecting the Eurasia and Americas for < $8 billion pic.twitter.com/c84VK75rh5
— Kirill Dmitriev (@kadmitriev) October 16, 2025
However the concept is even older, as you’ll be able to see from the March 3, 1959, version of Arthur Radebaugh’s “Nearer Than We Assume” Sunday cartoon.
From the strip:
Sen. Magnuson of Washington has a daring new concept for linking our latest state, Alaska, with Siberia by way of a bridge or vehicular tunnel throughout the 30- to 40-mile stretch of shallow waters of the Bering Strait. It will go from Wales, on the tip of Seward Peninsula, to Little Diomede and Massive Diomede Islands, thence to Peyak, Siberia.
The Senator forecasts this hook-up inside the lifetime of the current era, to create a rail and freeway route between factors as distant as New York and Paris. “I’m satisfied,” he says, “that the vacationers who in the future will drive this route shall be our greatest ambassadors!”
Is the concept of a tunnel connecting Russia and the U.S. only a troll by the Russian authorities to poke at Trump throughout a time when the nation continues to wage battle in opposition to Ukraine? Nearly actually. However that doesn’t imply a tunnel couldn’t occur sooner or later. Particularly if Trump makes one other wild pivot and decides he doesn’t need to assist Ukraine anymore.
Actually, there have been some indicators that Trump is able to throw within the towel on Friday. Trump posted on Fact Social about his assembly with Zelenskyy, describing it as “very attention-grabbing, and cordial,” and stated that he wished the killing to cease and for the Ukrainian chief to make a deal. After which he went into some bizarre territory.
“Sufficient blood has been shed, with property traces being outlined by Battle and Guts. They need to cease the place they’re. Let each declare Victory, let Historical past determine! No extra capturing, no extra Loss of life, no extra huge and unsustainable sums of cash spent. It is a Battle that might have by no means began if I have been President. 1000’s of individuals being slaughtered each week — NO MORE, GO HOME TO YOUR FAMILIES IN PEACE!” Trump wrote.
We might or might not get a tunnel between the U.S. and Russia anytime quickly. Nevertheless it looks like peace between Russia and Ukraine is additional away than ever.
