First of all, it remains questionable whether the documents that Representative Anna Paulina Luna received earlier this week from the Russian ambassador in Washington are genuine. They are reportedly the dossier the Kremlin compiled following the 1963 assassination of JFK. The US has been requesting the documents for decades and only received a summary in the 1990s, so why the Russians are suddenly coming forward with them is unclear.

American translators are still hard at work on the hundreds of pages of the dossier, but according to Kirill Dmitriev, the Kremlin’s special envoy for international economic cooperation and a known Putin whisperer, among it is a map of the route for a “Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge” between the US state of Alaska and Russia’s Far East. According to a notation on the map, which Dmitriev placed on X, “this bridge can and should be built immediately.” The suggestion is that the notation came from Kennedy.

Ambitious project

If it were up to the Putin whisperer, the connection between his country and the US would still be built sixty years later, but in the form of a 'Putin-Trump tunnel'. On X, he proposed that The Boring Company, Elon Musk's tunneling company, could take on the construction. Musk's company could do this for around 8 billion dollars, according to the Russian. According to Dmitriev, it would make The Boring Company"the most exciting infrastructure innovator ever".

Constructing a tunnel under the Bering Sea would indeed be a particularly ambitious project. Building the Channel Tunnel, for example, was already a major undertaking, and that was done in the temperate climate of Western Europe, not in the frigid far north. Furthermore, the question remains what the tunnel could add to shipping connections between eastern Russia and the U.S. West Coast.