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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Whoops, my bad. I read bridge not tunnel. Hey, they look almost like the same word /s
“I’m imagining this would be very expensive”
Not from Musk’s Boring Company.
It won’t be expensive.
You have no idea what you talking about.
That was my first thought, too!
Just like a game of Risk come to life!
Kamchatka is game to you?
Somewhete Johnny Horton is singing North To Alaska, ans Balto is bringing the serum to Nome.
Understood, but that kind of tourism isn’t popular enough to make an economic dent in the region.
I hope President Trump will be able to resist his love of building things in this instance.
They are still using it to transport their invaders to UK via France, which has already fallen.
article says Musk's technology could built the tunnel for a mere $8 billion. We've been wasting multiples of that for years. But the article does not mention the necessary cost of building a yuge Alaskan military base and encampment of missiles pointed at Russia to go along with the actual tunnel.
Do you have an estimate? $10 billion at the extreme low end? But in reality, more like $65 billion.
In a fresh twist as of today (October 17, 2025), Russia's sovereign wealth fund head, Kirill Dmitriev, publicly pitched the idea directly to Elon Musk and his Boring Company via X, dubbing it the “Putin-Trump Tunnel” amid thawing U.S.-Russia talks under President Trump. He suggested Musk's tunneling tech—known for urban loops like the Vegas Convention Center—could slash costs to just $8 billion and finish the 70-mile (including approaches) undersea rail link in eight years, versus decades for traditional methods. (Musk hasn't commented yet.) This optimistic figure assumes revolutionary efficiency from Boring’s machines, but experts note the company lacks experience in extreme cold, quakes, or remote subsea digs—its projects so far are short, shallow urban tunnels in milder climates.
Even at $65 Billion, the wealthy Russian Sovereign Fund and Musk (worth nearly $500 billion) can do it.
No need for a huge base or missiles you can cave a tunnel in with a truck load of shaped charges. The idea of sending an invasion force underwater into a choke point with only one entrance and one exit is insane.only people with zero military experience even suggest such idiocy. Punch a hole anywhere along its length below the water table and the sea floods in killing everyone in it fast too a literal wall of water like a hammer crushing everything in its path. Each side could , and would set up demolition charges near their entrance portals below said seawater level. At the first hint of war those would be blown and it would be years if ever before the tunnel could be pumped dry and then repaired.seawater would absolutely wreak the rails and tunnel infrastructure. Look at what Super storm Sandy did to the tunnels under the Hudson and East river’s billions to repair what seawater did when they flooded. Not an easy fix or fast. So no the Russians nor the Chinese are invading via a tunnel. As for spec ops they would come via submarine or aircraft with civilian transponders or even on civilian jets and just jump from altitude all spec ops train for HALO and HAHO jumps the 727 was specifically modified with a vane that above 100knts the airflow pushed this vane back and it physically prevented the rear stairs ramp from opening in flight after DB Cooper’s jump. There were “special” 727 that had that vane removed for various alphabet guys to use. The Russians fly Yak42 it doesn’t have the no open vane and does have rear stairs ramp you could jump at altitude from one with ease. Then again the commies just send university students of fighting age by the hundreds of thousands per year so why jump at all. The spec ops teams and sleeper agents are already here.
Surface weather doesn’t mean anything to underground drillingonce you get below the frostline the earth is a relatively uniform temp increasing at the geothermal gradient as you go deeper. At a couple hundred feet underground it’s going to be in the 70s to 100F depending on the regional geo gradient, the circle of fire is called that for a reason. Now getting supplies to and from in subzero thats and issue.
The question is can they scale up their revolutionary TBMs to train sized tunnels they have 14 foot dia tunnels for cars, AAR plate K structure gauge is over 20 feet tall for double stack containers and 16ft is the minimum for Plate B so you need at least a 20 foot TBM for a 18ft interior dia tunnel with 2 feet for wires and insulation stand offs for the overhead electric line you ain’t running a diesel inside a 70+ mile underwater tunnel no way no how. Boring under water means a shield type TBM with mud pressure pressure balance system. I don’t think TBC has done a shield TBM build yet. Maybe LA it’s close to sea level. Vegas has a shallow aquifer system but if it’s not under pressure a regular TBM would just pump the seep out.
Very interesting! thanks!
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