Kirill Dmitriev first posted about the idea on Thursday, suggesting a "Putin-Trump" rail tunnel could connect the two countries under the Bering Strait, which separates Russia's vast and sparsely populated Chukotka region from Alaska.

Asked about the idea during a press conference with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, Donald Trump called it "interesting".

He also asked President Zelenskyy what he made of it, to which Mr Zelenskyy replied: "I'm not happy with this idea."

This prompted laughter from the US side.

Overnight, Mr Dmitriev posted on X, saying: "We have started the feasibility study of the Russia-Alaska tunnel six months ago.

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

Isn't that territory permafrosted? That'd make a construction project of that scale a non-starter. Plus a whole bunch of other reasons it'd be dumb.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The Russians have had rail in Siberia forever.

    This was planned out 20+ years ago for cars and rail there just wasn't ever the political will to do it.

    It makes sense geographically. Not as much geopolitically.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And a fuckton of people died building it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Died? It's a plan on paper. No one ever built anything. And in 2025 it would be pretty low risk, TBMs are commonplace and we have drones.

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