Constructing a tunnel throughout the Bering Strait, from Russia to Alaska, is an concept that’s been round since no less than the Nineteen Fifties. And the Kremlin apparently thinks it’s adequate to revive, if the CEO of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund is to be believed.
Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of the Russian Direct Funding Fund, tweeted the concept on Thursday, full with a map of the place the tunnel may be constructed. And he thinks that billionaire oligarch Elon Musk could be the person to do it.
“@elonmusk, think about connecting the US and Russia, the Americas and the Afro-Eurasia with the Putin-Trump Tunnel – a 70-mile hyperlink symbolizing unity. Conventional prices are $65B+, however @boringcompany’s tech may scale back it to <$8B. Let’s construct a future collectively!” Dmitriev tweeted.
President Donald Trump was requested concerning the proposal by a reporter on the White Home throughout a press availability with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Friday. Trump known as the concept an “attention-grabbing one,” however mentioned, “We’ll have to consider that. I hadn’t heard that,” based on CNBC.
How possible would a tunnel be? Theoretically, it’s fully attainable. However Elon Musk won’t be the man to do it. The billionaire CEO has over-promised and under-delivered in relation to his tunneling tasks. Musk has typically floated huge concepts, however when it comes time to truly do them, he’ll often produce one thing a lot much less implausible.
Dmitriev tweeted a few proposal for a “Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge,” which was imagined within the early Sixties.
From the Soviet JFK docs launched by @RepLuna: Kennedy–Khrushchev World Peace Bridge “may and ought to be constructed between Alaska and Russia without delay.”
With trendy @boringcompany expertise this could grow to be a Putin-Trump tunnel connecting the Eurasia and Americas for < $8 billion pic.twitter.com/c84VK75rh5
— Kirill Dmitriev (@kadmitriev) October 16, 2025
However the thought is even older, as you may see from the March 3, 1959, version of Arthur Radebaugh’s “Nearer Than We Suppose” Sunday comic strip.
From the strip:
Sen. Magnuson of Washington has a daring new thought for linking our latest state, Alaska, with Siberia through a bridge or vehicular tunnel throughout the 30- to 40-mile stretch of shallow waters of the Bering Strait. It could go from Wales, on the tip of Seward Peninsula, to Little Diomede and Huge Diomede Islands, thence to Peyak, Siberia.
The Senator forecasts this hook-up inside the lifetime of the current era, to create a rail and freeway route between factors as distant as New York and Paris. “I’m satisfied,” he says, “that the vacationers who someday will drive this route will likely be our greatest ambassadors!”
Is the concept of a tunnel connecting Russia and the U.S. only a troll by the Russian authorities to poke at Trump throughout a time when the nation continues to wage struggle in opposition to Ukraine? Nearly definitely. However that doesn’t imply a tunnel couldn’t occur sooner or later. Particularly if Trump makes one other wild pivot and decides he doesn’t need to assist Ukraine anymore.
In reality, there have been some indicators that Trump is able to throw within the towel on Friday. Trump posted on Truth Social about his assembly with Zelenskyy, describing it as “very attention-grabbing, and cordial,” and mentioned that he wished the killing to cease and for the Ukrainian chief to make a deal. After which he went into some bizarre territory.
“Sufficient blood has been shed, with property traces being outlined by Warfare and Guts. They need to cease the place they’re. Let each declare Victory, let Historical past determine! No extra taking pictures, no extra Demise, no extra huge and unsustainable sums of cash spent. This can be a Warfare that may have by no means began if I have been President. Hundreds of individuals being slaughtered every week — NO MORE, GO HOME TO YOUR FAMILIES IN PEACE!” Trump wrote.
We could or could not get a tunnel between the U.S. and Russia anytime quickly. But it surely appears like peace between Russia and Ukraine is additional away than ever.
