First of all: it remains to be seen whether the documents that Representative Anna Paulina Luna received from the Russian ambassador in Washington earlier this week are genuine. It concerns the file that the Kremlin created following the assassination attempt on JFK in 1963. The US has been asking for the documents for decades and was only given access to a summary in the 1990s, so it is unclear why the Russians are now suddenly offering them.
American translators are still working on the hundreds of pages of the dossier, but according to Kirill Dmitriev, the Kremlin’s special envoy for international economic cooperation who is known as a Putin whisperer, there is a map of the route for a ‘Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge’ between the US state of Alaska and the far east of Russia. According to a note on the map, which Dmitriev placed at X, “this bridge can and should be built immediately.” The suggestion would be that that note came from Kennedy.
Ambitious project
If it were up to the Putin whisperer, the connection between his country and the US would still be there sixty years later, but in the form of a ‘Putin-Trump tunnel’. He suggested to X that The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunnel company, could take care of the construction. Musk’s company could do this for approximately $8 billion, according to the Russian. According to Dmitriev, it would make The Boring Company “the most exciting infrastructure innovator ever.”
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The construction of a tunnel under the Bering Sea would indeed be a very ambitious project. For example, it was quite a job to build the Channel Tunnel and that happened in the temperate climate of Western Europe, not in the frigid far north. In addition, the question is what the tunnel could add to the shipping connections between eastern Russia and the American West Coast.
There seems a good chance that Dmitriev’s plan will remain a trial balloon. Neither Musk nor Washington have responded to his proposal.