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 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 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 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 stated, “We’ll have to consider that. I hadn’t heard that,” in accordance with 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 relating to his tunneling tasks. Musk has usually floated massive concepts, however when it comes time to really 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 Sixties.

From the Soviet JFK docs launched by @RepLuna: Kennedy–Khrushchev World Peace Bridge “may and needs to be constructed between Alaska and Russia directly.”

With fashionable @boringcompany expertise this may turn out 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 possibly can 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 concept for linking our latest state, Alaska, with Siberia by way of a bridge or vehicular tunnel throughout the 30- to 40-mile stretch of shallow waters of the Bering Strait. It will 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 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 sooner or later will drive this route shall 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 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 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 attention-grabbing, 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 Dying, no extra huge and unsustainable sums of cash spent. This can be a Battle that may have by no means began if I have 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. However it seems like peace between Russia and Ukraine is additional away than ever.