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Zelensky not happy about a possible tunnel or bridge between America & Russia
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:05 pm
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:05 pm
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Of course we must appease big Z lol
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The 70-mile tunnel would be built under the Bering Strait and unlock joint exploration of natural resources, a Kremlin envoy has suggested. Kirill Dmitriev - Putin's investment envoy and CEO of Russia's RDIF sovereign wealth fund - said the project would be funded by Moscow and "international partners", costing $8bn (£5.9bn). The proposal suggests using The Boring Company, a US tunnel construction company owned by Elon Musk, to built the bridge in under eight years.
Dmitriev said the tunnel would typically cost upwards of $65bn (£48.5bn) but the technology from Musk's firm's could bring the cost down to $8bn. He introduced the tunnel idea late on Thursday after Putin and Donald Trump spoke in a phone call - with the Russian President agreeing to meet in Budapest for talks on securing peace 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. RDIF has studied existing proposals, including the US-Canada-Russia-China railroad, and will support the most viable," Dmitriev wrote on X.
The Bering Strait is 51mi (82km) wide at its narrowest point and separates Russia's Chukotka region from Alaska. There have been talks to connect the two points for at least 150 years, with a number of projects proposed but never implemented. Dmitriev wrote to Musk on X: "Imagine connecting the US and Russia, the Americas and the Afro-Eurasia with the Putin-Trump Tunnel - a 70-mile link symbolizing unity."
He added that a similar idea - the construction of a 'Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge' - was proposed during the Cold War and shared a sketch highlighting the route it may have taken between Chukotka and Alaska.
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Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:06 pm to hawgfaninc
Pretty cool... and if it makes Z squirm, all the better.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:08 pm to hawgfaninc
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Zelensky
Speaking of No Kings
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:09 pm to hawgfaninc
Pretty cool, I think. Can someone who knows explain in more detail what benefits this would have, beyond the important symbolism?
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:10 pm to hawgfaninc
Elon's Boring Company could do it.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:12 pm to GRTiger
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Pretty cool, I think.
Can someone who knows explain in more detail what benefits this would have, beyond the important symbolism?
Easier access to the fine arse Russian women
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:16 pm to Rohan Gravy
Roger is about to be swimming in it. Maybe that'll loosen him up a bit. 
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:17 pm to hawgfaninc
Taking a train from Alaska all the way across Russia to Moscow would be an unbelievable trip.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:17 pm to hawgfaninc
Talk about a project to nowhere. There isn’t a road or railroad within a thousand miles in either country.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:18 pm to hawgfaninc
The ultimate bridge to nowhere that would be
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:19 pm to hawgfaninc
No way I would drive through a 70 mile tunnel. If you are not claustrophobic when you start, you will be by the end of it.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:19 pm to WeeWee
Either way, I like that they are thinking of shite like this. Better than lobbing threats of sanctions and world ending war back and forth.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:20 pm to GRTiger
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what benefits this would have, beyond the important symbolism?
None really. There is nothing on either continent for an enormous distance. Plus the Bering strait is a pretty treacherous place to try and build or maintain a bridge or tunnel.
Perhaps it would just be rail for resource transfers but even then, both countries would have to make huge investments to connect a tunnel to anything else, because there is absolutely nothing in western Alaska or Kamchatka.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:23 pm to WeeWee
Yet people once crossed it without any roads or modern infrastructure. Their are ancestors of them who live around there still
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:23 pm to Indefatigable
Interesting. So 70 miles of rail would be nore like 700 miles of rail in order to be practical.
frick it, let's do it. What's 8bn for at least some temporary world peace?
frick it, let's do it. What's 8bn for at least some temporary world peace?
This post was edited on 10/17/25 at 7:24 pm
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:24 pm to WeeWee
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Talk about a project to nowhere. There isn’t a road or railroad within a thousand miles in either country.
You are thinking about it as it is now.
This would spur growth in a region of Russia that has vast resources, but Russia can't develop on their own. Those resources will end up being developed by the US or China. This could be a wedge between China and Russia. Trump needs to push this hard.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:25 pm to hawgfaninc
The idea of being able to travel to Asia without a flight amazes me.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:25 pm to WeeWee
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There isn’t a road or railroad within a thousand miles in either country.
I’m sure it would spur development at the tunnel/bridge location on each country
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:28 pm to Indefatigable
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None really. There is nothing on either continent for an enormous distance. Plus the Bering strait is a pretty treacherous place to try and build or maintain a bridge or tunnel.
Perhaps it would just be rail for resource transfers but even then, both countries would have to make huge investments to connect a tunnel to anything else, because there is absolutely nothing in western Alaska or Kamchatka.
Wow, you should write them and tell them what you have discovered.
Of course them "mentioning" it means it is going full speed ahead with no feasibility studies or anything. Nobody has a way to obtain your knowledge. Tell them!
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