Kremlin envoy proposes 'Putin-Trump tunnel' to nexus Russia and U.S.
Reuters
An concern envoy for Russian President Vladimir Putin connected Friday entreated Elon Musk and his tunneling business, the Boring Company, to perpetrate to gathering an undersea obstruction passageway done the Bering Strait to beryllium partially funded by Moscow.
Kirill Dmitriev, who is caput of Russia's sovereign wealthiness fund, said successful posts connected Musk's societal media level X that helium envisioned "the Putin-Trump Tunnel - a 70-mile nexus symbolizing unity."
A passageway similar this would traditionally outgo an estimated $65 cardinal to build, Dmitriev said, adding that The Boring Company and its exertion could perchance trim those costs to $8 cardinal and implicit the task wrong 8 years.
"Let's physique a aboriginal together!" helium wrote.
Dmitriev's proposition followed a telephone betwixt Putin and President Donald Trump on Thursday, during which plans were made to sermon imaginable resolutions to the Ukraine War.
Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio and different high-level advisors volition conscionable adjacent week with a Russian delegation earlier Trump and Putin conscionable successful Budapest, Hungary, astatine a aboriginal date.
Musk did not respond to a petition for remark astir the proposal.
Construction of an undersea passageway successful the Bering Strait would necessitate Musk's Boring Company to enactment done below-freezing temperatures successful a portion without existing infrastructure and with heavy and predominant earthquakes.
The Boring Company has nary way grounds of moving done specified conditions.
Its erstwhile tunneling efforts were completed successful hot, adust locations with plentifulness of infrastructure and services nearby.
The Boring Company was precocious fined and cited by biology regulators successful the authorities of Nevada for an "extraordinary fig of violations," ProPublica reported, citing nationalist records. Those violations included: digging without approval, releasing untreated h2o onto metropolis streets and spilling discarded from trucks.
The Boring Company is present moving connected a 10-mile passageway task from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, to its airport, dubbed the Music City Loop. Residents protested, successful part, owed to the deficiency of readying earlier The Boring Company task was authorized successful the flood-prone city.
U.S. President Donald Trump (R) walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin arsenic they arrives astatine Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson connected August 15, 2025 successful Anchorage, Alaska.
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Musk's automaker, Tesla, has proviso concatenation ties to Russia, and the CEO has spoken with Putin astir different matters successful the past fewer years.
The EV shaper has purchased millions of euros worthy of aluminum from Rusal, a institution founded by sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, CNBC antecedently reported.
Musk held concealed talks with Putin successful 2022, the Wall Street Journal reported successful October 2024.
In 1 instance, Putin had pressured Musk to nonstop SpaceX to withold Starlink, its outer net communications service, from Taiwan arsenic a favour to Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Journal reported, citing 2 radical briefed connected the request.
Beijing is simply a captious state to the Kremlin.
The conversations betwixt Musk and Putin, who erstwhile ran the KGB, reportedly occurred arsenic Musk was successful the midst of a leveraged buyout and takeover of Twitter, present known arsenic X.
Working with NASA, Musk's aerospace and defence contractor, SpaceX, has besides launched Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station.
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