Constructing a tunnel throughout the Bering Strait, from Russia to Alaska, is an concept that’s been round since at the least 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 thought on Thursday, full with a map of the place the tunnel could be constructed. And he thinks that billionaire oligarch Elon Musk can 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 might 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 thought an “fascinating one,” however mentioned, “We’ll have to consider that. I hadn’t heard that,” in keeping with CNBC.
How possible would a tunnel be? Theoretically, it’s fully potential. However Elon Musk won’t be the man to do it. The billionaire CEO has over-promised and under-delivered relating to his tunneling initiatives. Musk has usually floated huge concepts, however when it comes time to truly do them, he’ll regularly produce one thing a lot much less improbable.
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 “might and ought to be constructed between Alaska and Russia directly.”
With trendy @boringcompany know-how this will change into a Putin-Trump tunnel connecting the Eurasia and Americas for < $8 billion pic.twitter.com/c84VK75rh5
— Kirill Dmitriev (@kadmitriev) October 16, 2025
However the thought is even older, as you’ll be able to see from the March 3, 1959, version of Arthur Radebaugh’s “Nearer Than We Suppose” Sunday caricature.
From the strip:
Sen. Magnuson of Washington has a daring new thought 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 could go from Wales, on the tip of Seward Peninsula, to Little Diomede and Large 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 will probably be our greatest ambassadors!”
Is the thought 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 warfare in opposition to Ukraine? Virtually definitely. 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 wish to assist Ukraine anymore.
In reality, there have been some indicators that Trump is able to throw within the towel on Friday. Trump posted on Reality Social about his assembly with Zelenskyy, describing it as “very fascinating, and cordial,” and mentioned 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 Struggle 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. This can be a Struggle that will have by no means began if I have been President. 1000’s of individuals being slaughtered every week — NO MORE, GO HOME TO YOUR FAMILIES IN PEACE!” Trump wrote.
We could or could 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.
