The Kremlin Needs Elon Musk to Construct a Tunnel From Russia to the U.S.

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 is likely to 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 might scale back it to <$8B. Let’s construct a future collectively!” Dmitriev tweeted.

President Donald Trump was requested in regards to the proposal by a reporter on the White Home throughout a press availability with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Friday. Trump referred to as the concept an “fascinating one,” however stated, “We’ll have to consider that. I hadn’t heard that,” in response to CNBC.

How possible would a tunnel be? Theoretically, it’s solely potential. However Elon Musk won’t be the man to do it. The billionaire CEO has over-promised and under-delivered in the case of his tunneling initiatives. Musk has usually floated huge concepts, however when it comes time to really do them, he’ll continuously produce one thing a lot much less improbable.

Dmitriev tweeted a couple of 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 “might and must be constructed between Alaska and Russia without delay.”

With fashionable @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 concept is even older, as you may see from the March 3, 1959, version of Arthur Radebaugh’s “Nearer Than We Assume” Sunday comic strip.

From the strip:

Sen. Magnuson of Washington has a daring new concept 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 might go from Wales, on the tip of Seward Peninsula, to Little Diomede and Large Diomede Islands, thence to Peyak, Siberia.

The Senator forecasts this hook-up throughout the lifetime of the current technology, 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 probably 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 conflict towards Ukraine? Nearly actually. 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 wish to assist Ukraine anymore.

The truth is, 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 fascinating, and cordial,” and stated that he needed 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 strains being outlined by Battle and Guts. They need to cease the place they’re. Let each declare Victory, let Historical past resolve! No extra taking pictures, no extra Loss of life, no extra huge and unsustainable sums of cash spent. It is a Battle that might have by no means began if I had been President. Hundreds of individuals being slaughtered each 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. Nevertheless it looks like peace between Russia and Ukraine is additional away than ever.