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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I don’t know. But it’sa pretty cool site even with the free option.
The Bee stung me again….
The words “Russian” and “charm” are rarely found together.
Would some possibly say that this makes Russia part of the Western Hemisphere? I think I may smell a rat here. It certainly seems to create a possible target.
Not really a bad idea—but not in the climate today. In some future era when Russian Federation and North American Union are friendly it will be a great trade boom. A bridge might be cheaper. A whole railroad system will be needed.
Truly idiotic, even by Russian standards.
(If you want to see a colossal waste of money, check out Musk’s Boring Co.’s loop system in Las Vegas.)
Great. More drugs, more trafficking and more illegals from Asia, Africa and the Eurotrash through that tunnel.
I’d guess that the tourism infrastructure is minimal.
Imagine driving your car from Maine to England....
Put down the crack pipe.
Imagine traveling 70 miles in a damn tunnel... NO THANKS!
Don’t let Gavin Newsome hear about this, he’d want to throw a trillion dollars away on it. More loot for his union buddies.
Probably would have more riders than the Kalifornia Train to Nowhere.
I’m all for mending fences with the Russians who we’ve never really ever been at war with.. even the Cold War was mostly MIC fear mongering.. and the sooner we disengage from Ukraine the better.
But we have to be mindful of anti-MAGA factions trying to resurrect the Russia-Russia hoax. They love to reinforce the myth that Trump and Putin are dictator buddies.
Tourism is not for the Club Med or Sandals crowd but for the hardcore outdoorsman it’s worth the trip. Safer than Africa and South American
“Destroy”?
By who?
It better be an enclosed/heated bridge
RIGHT!
Don’t Alaski have some big earthquakes? 70 mile long flooded tomb.
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