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Posted on 10/17/2025 8:17:03 AM PDT by DFG
Moscow has proposed a 70-mile Elon Musk-built 'Putin-Trump' rail tunnel which would link Russia and America.
The tunnel, which would go under the Bering strait, would unlock joint exploration of natural resources and 'symbolise unity', a Kremlin envoy said.
The proposal has suggested using The Boring Company, a US tunnel construction company owned by Elon Musk, to construct the $8billion bridge.
It comes as the Kremlin desperately tries to stop Donald Trump from providing crucial Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.
Kirill Dmitriev, President's Vladimir Putin's investment envoy and head of Russia's RDIF sovereign wealth fund, said Moscow and 'international partners', including Musk, could build the rail and cargo link in under eight years.
While it would typically cost more than $65bn, Musk's firm's technology could reduce the cost to under $8bn, Dmitriev said.
Dmitriev, who is behind a Russian charm offensive designed to revive US-Russian relations, floated the idea on Thursday after Putin spoke to Trump by phone and agreed to meet in Budapest to try to find a way to stop the war in Ukraine.
'The dream of a US–Russia link via the Bering Strait reflects an enduring vision — from the 1904 Siberia–Alaska railway to Russia's 2007 plan,' Dmitriev wrote on X.
'RDIF has studied existing proposals, including the US–Canada–Russia–China railroad, and will support the most viable.
The Bering Strait, which is 51 miles wide at its narrowest point, separates Russia's Chukotka region from Alaska.
Ideas to link the two points have been around for at least 150 years, with various projects drawn up but never implemented.
Dmitriev has forged ties with Steve Witkoff, Trump's special envoy, and spoken of the possibility of U.S. energy majors taking minority stakes in Russian projects in the Arctic.
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Yes, trade and tourism is SO big between those two bustling end-points that a project like this is sorely needed.
Too easy to destroy. And the more valuable, the more a target. Wait another 5 years and let climate change rebuild the icy land bridge.
I would worry about earthquakes
Why would Russians need to get to Alaska, or alaskans need to get to that part of Russia? These are two very low population areas. I’m imagining this would be very expensive so I guess it’s just kind of project to make a few companies a lot of money. I can’t imagine it would have anywhere near close to a return on the investment.
Chukotka...I had one of those at the Slavic Festival last May. Looked like fried cat, but wasn’t bad.
Yes, trade and tourism is SO big between those two bustling end-points that a project like this is sorely needed.
Pass. What else ya got?
Yeah, right.
“Wait another 5 years and let climate change rebuild the icy land bridge.”
You left off a few zeros ...
and then there’s the fact that no highway exists for at least a thousand miles from the Alaska terminus ...
There’s mountains of gold in Alaska. Don’t kid yourself, the Russians know it too.
He who controls the gold, controls the world.
Yep, kind of like that California boondoggle.
If Russia wants to pay for it fine, otherwise NOPE.
Looks like an invasion or infiltration route ...
A tunnel to nowhere.
That’s insane and not in our national interests
Lol.
Not a big factor, we’re famous for building trains that go nowhere, and bridges over nothing.
how else will the tanks traverse the divide?
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