The link proposal between the US and Russia reflects an "enduring vision", investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev has said.

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.

  • ceenote@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    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.

    • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      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.