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 at the very least 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 perhaps constructed. And he thinks that billionaire oligarch Elon Musk can 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 totally attainable. However Elon Musk may not be the man to do it. The billionaire CEO has over-promised and under-delivered in relation to his tunneling initiatives. Musk has usually 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 couple of proposal for a “Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge,” which was imagined within the early Nineteen 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 may develop into 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 possibly can 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 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 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 can 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 warfare towards 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 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 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 strains being outlined by Conflict 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 Conflict that will have by no means began if I have been President. 1000’s of individuals being slaughtered every week — NO MORE, GO HOME TO YOUR FAMILIES IN PEACE!” Trump wrote.

We might or might not get a tunnel between the U.S. and Russia anytime quickly. However it seems like peace between Russia and Ukraine is additional away than ever.