The following is a machine translation of an interview Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave to TASS news service on the now widely discussed proposal for a Bering Strait Tunnel connecting Russia and the United States. The late American statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche had long advocated the building of the Bering Strait Tunnel great project:
Expert Zepp-LaRouche Assesses the Prospects of a Tunnel between Russia and the United States
It would embody the concept of “peace through development,” says Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute.
WASHINGTON, October 18. /TASS Correspondent Sergei Yumatov. A tunnel built under the Bering Strait and connecting Russia and the United States would be the ideal embodiment of the concept of “peace through development.” Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, outlined this position in an interview with a TASS correspondent.
“It is obvious to President Trump that normalizing U.S.-Russia relations will open up enormous prospects for developing economic cooperation between the two countries. The most impressive [project] would be the ‘Putin-Trump tunnel,’ which, as Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, noted on social media, would become a 70-mile link between America and Afro-Eurasia across the Bering Strait,” the expert noted.
According to her, “the tunnel would help open up the entire Russian Far East for development and create enormous investment opportunities for resource-poor countries.” “The Putin-Trump Tunnel would be the ideal embodiment of the ‘peace through development’ concept,” Zepp-LaRouche emphasized. The choice of Budapest as the venue for a new meeting between Russian and American leaders, according to the expert, “will remind Europeans of the nearly lost art of diplomacy.” “This is good for the entire world,” she concluded.
President Donald Trump called the Bering Strait tunnel project, which would connect Russia and the United States by rail, “interesting.” Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian President’s Special Representative for Economic Cooperation with Foreign Countries and CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), stated that such a tunnel could be built in less than eight years, and its cost would not exceed $8 billion.
The idea of connecting the transport systems of Eurasia and America via a tunnel has been discussed for decades. As The Times newspaper noted in 2011, citing British experts, freight transportation along the Eurasia-U.S. highway would also connect resource-rich but sparsely populated areas of the planet with key overpasses, and would be less expensive, faster, and safer than by sea.
Read also:
1. Dmitriev: Discussions on Tunnel Connecting U.S. and Russia Have Begun.
2. Zepp-LaRouche Expert: Russia and the U.S. Could Build a Tunnel under the Bering Strait.
3. The State Duma Called Trump’s Question to Zelenskyy about a Tunnel between Russia and the U.S. Trolling.
