No sooner had Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin hung up their phones than Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev announced an ambitious plan: Russia would build a tunnel under the Bering Strait, connecting Russia’s Chukotka with Alaska. It would be called the “Trump–Putin Tunnel.” A day later, it emerged that Dmitriev’s business entities had already been working on a feasibility study for six months and that the idea supposedly originated with a Soviet official during Khrushchev’s talks with Kennedy. According to Dmitriev, modern technologies developed by Elon Musk’s Boring Company (owned by Elon Musk) suppo
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