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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Half the people in the tunnel are probably Muslim
“Yes, trade and tourism is SO big between those two bustling end-points that a project like this is sorely needed.”
Direct access via rail to Siberian resources is a very big deal.
LOL ... “unity.” I think Moscow means “so we can take over Alaska.”
The problem is it wouldn’t be practical. Very few Russians or Americans live in Alaska or Kamchatka.
I would love to visit the Russian far east — some day. A road trip from Nome, AK to say.. Yakutsk, Russia.. wow ! But a lot of infrastructure needs to be built around the bridge or tunnel. That alone won’t be enough. Remember, when the Golden Gate came up in the 1930s there was nothing there.
I wonder how stable geologically it is? Probably not very since we just had a Tsunami in that region.
You have no idea what that area is like. Many points have already been made about the remoteness of this area. The distance between that area and the closest road and city (Fairbanks) is approximately the length of California. AND, it’s tundra and very large mountains.
Folks, please look behind the curtain here. This is NOT about a Russia-Alaska rail tunnel, that is just this drop of a larger operation. The above image was included in the recent 350-page Russia drop to Rep Paulina Luna, that she talked about a week ago. The image is from the early 1960's, and what's going on with this tunnel today, mirrors that from JFK's era. The letters below was sent by Jacqueline Kennedy to Russia after the CIA murder of JFK.
Future proves Past. Trump draining the NWO/deep-state/Swamp, restoring the Republic FOR the United States.
Because the ring of fire is just soooo geologically stable.
Symbolic pork projects do not make for “unity”. The idea is a joke.
It might not take much to run a rail line from Fairbanks to the Bering Strait. But for the Russians to build a line to the proposed tunnel would be a massive endeavor.
AI says: “There is no existing route from Nizhny Bestyakh to the Bering Strait; it would require building over 3,000 miles of new railway or highway through remote and rugged terrain, facing immense logistical, environmental, and financial challenges. While there are long-term plans for a railway to eventually reach the Bering Strait, no rail lines exist east of Nizhny Bestyakh, and projects like the proposed Intercontinental Railway have been discussed but are not under construction.”
I actually think this is a pretty good idea. It would make for an interesting road trip.
More likely a beer and amphetamines in Jonny’s back pocket.
everything is impossible until it’s been done.
But that’s not my point is it.
Putin wants us to build him an oil pipeline......
More than I thought. Doesn’t it freeze in the winter?
Countries with communist traditions loves these grandiose public projects for no economic benefit.
See North Korea building the world’s tallest building, see Chian with it’s myriad of pointless buildings.
Good thinking and interesting thread. Thanks to all posters.
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