Posted on 10/17/2025 11:51:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump said Friday that a Russian proposal for Elon Musk and his tunneling business, the Boring Company, to build an undersea rail tunnel through the Bering Strait was “interesting” and he’d have to think about it.
“That’s an interesting one,” Trump said when asked about the suggested tunnel from Russia to Alaska. “We’ll have to think about that. I hadn’t heard that.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was “not happy” with the idea following Trump’s response.
Kirill Dmitriev, an investment envoy for Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggested in posts on Musk’s social media platform X that the project would be partly funded by Moscow.
Dmitriev said it would be “a 70-mile link symbolizing unity.”
A tunnel like this would traditionally cost an estimated $65 billion to build, said Dmitriev, who is head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, adding that The Boring Company and its technology could potentially reduce those costs to $8 billion and complete the project within eight years.
“Let’s build a future together!” he wrote.
Dmitriev’s suggestion followed a call between Putin and Trump on Thursday, during which plans were made to discuss possible resolutions to the Ukraine War.
Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other high-level advisors will meet next week with a Russian delegation before Trump and Putin meet in Budapest, Hungary, at a future date.
Musk did not respond to a request for comment about the proposal.
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Third article today.
Long proposed. Not new idea.
I’d like it except that both sides of the tunnel
Or bridge are remote desolate for hundreds of miles.
I am hoping this country is not dumb enough to fall for this idiocy. We have ships and ferries, they work fine.
For what purpose?
Stupid in my book!
Why would we want that?
Among other things, couldn’t that be used by China if they wanted to invade?
Another way illegal immigrants could invade our country.
Seems kind of a huge waste of money
Access to Siberian mineral tonnage by rail without transshipment is an attractive prospect, yet it does remind me of Nordstream II with all its attendant complications.
Insane to do it in an earthquake prone area like that.
No... no... no... on so many levels.
How hard would it be to flood it?
It’s a very seismically active area, but that might best be thought of as a challenge than as a show stopper.
The really big issue here is the oil in Russia’s Kara Sea. That all gets shipped, and the Pacific customers (China etc) mean it gets shipped over that proposed tunnel.
And with a tunnel there, maybe a town for enroute stops and provisioning, with crew off duty taking a trip to the US, which no doubt would form a little town on the east side of the tunnel.
It’s not a whole lot different in an overall sense than the ISS, which the US could access for about 10 years ONLY via Russian Soyuz. It’s a technological achievement and one of those why not questions rather than why questions.
“Thank you for the gift of the giant horse. What nice people.”
Line the tunnel with rubber. ;-D
Mr. Trump - don't trust the Russians!
A paradise of a town it would be!
Invasion pipeline.
If you find a quote from Putin, or I’ll even allow Lavrov, nobody else, saying explicitly that Alaska belongs to Russia then your point is legitimate.
If you can’t, you’re telling us you have telepathy.
I think the tunnel is a stupid idea, but conducting an invasion through a 70-mile undersea tunnel that could be flooded with one well-placed explosion would be even stupider.
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