Constructing a tunnel throughout the Bering Strait, from Russia to Alaska, is an concept that’s been round since no less than the Nineteen Fifties. And the Kremlin apparently thinks it’s adequate 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 is likely to 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 concept an “attention-grabbing 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 solely attainable. However Elon Musk won’t be the man to do it. The billionaire CEO has over-promised and under-delivered on the subject of his tunneling initiatives. Musk has usually floated massive concepts, however when it comes time to truly do them, he’ll regularly produce one thing a lot much less unbelievable.
Dmitriev tweeted a few 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 without delay.”
With fashionable @boringcompany know-how this could 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 concept is even older, as you may see from the March 3, 1959, version of Arthur Radebaugh’s “Nearer Than We Assume” Sunday comic strip.
From the strip:
Sen. Magnuson of Washington has a daring new concept for linking our latest state, Alaska, with Siberia through 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 Large Diomede Islands, thence to Peyak, Siberia.
The Senator forecasts this hook-up throughout 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 might 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 struggle towards 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 need to assist Ukraine anymore.
The truth is, there have been some indicators that Trump is able to throw within the towel on Friday. Trump posted on Truth Social about his assembly with Zelenskyy, describing it as “very attention-grabbing, and cordial,” and mentioned that he needed 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 taking pictures, 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 each 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 appears like peace between Russia and Ukraine is additional away than ever.
