Imagine the economic opportunities for both the USA and Russia? Staggering! Alaska (and Russia) would become a popular tourist destination, too. Not greater Alaska, but the coastal areas, and state parks.
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By L Todd Wood
October 17, 2025
This is why the formerly Christian EU wants so desperately to fight Russia - they will become an irrelevant museum run by Muslims within a generation.
As a graduate of the University of Alaska Anchorage for my engineering graduate degree (and a helicopter pilot) I am very familiar with the Bering Strait and its economic possibilities. My graduate school project was on transportation options for the region, to united disparate peoples. The economic and humanitarian possibilities for this region are essentially endless.
https://twitter.com/kadmitriev/status/1978917512285687902
It is obvious Presidents Trump and Putin are discussing uniting the United States and Russia economically via a land bridge or tunnel across the Bering Strait. It is also obvious to me Europe doesn't want this at all - hence the continued Ukraine war - to weaken the Russian Federation and to demonize the Russian people in the eyes of the world, never mind that the Biden administration and NATO/EU pushed for the deadly conflict. Neck deep in the globalist desire to turn Europe in to a slave vassal state for China, the possibility of a new 'Northern Alliance' frightens EU capitals. With their economies intentionally destroyed, and horrific tyranny already in-bound and tightening, Europe will become a museum run by the imported Muslim shock troops.
Now comes word of a possible summit in Hungary between Putin and Trump. This is a game changer of massive proportions.
...Trump's meeting with Putin in Budapest is a great humiliation for the EU and a huge benefit for Orbán, writes The Telegraph.
"Choosing Hungary as the venue for the summit likely wiped the smile off the EU's face. The bloc has largely stayed out of the peace negotiations on Ukraine and is concerned about the secondary role it played in the Gaza peace plan. The country, which almost all EU members and institutions have ostracized, has now found itself in the spotlight of Mr. Trump, who believes the bloc was created to 'annoy' the US," the article says.
It notes that besides Orbán's close relations with Trump and Putin, another reason for choosing this location may be Hungary's recent withdrawal from the ICC, which means it is not obliged to arrest the Russian president upon arrival.
There's another point not being discussed. Finland used to play the role of a neutral territory for US-Russia forums. Not anymore. Finland's entry into NATO stripped it of that respectable role
And you know what else could follow Hungary's new role? The revival of the Austro-Hungarian Empire!
Russian financial technocrat Kirill Dmitriev has been telegraphing the new reality, if anyone cared to listen.
For three centuries now, scientists, engineers, visionaries, and corporate executives have been discussing the construction of a route across the Bering Strait.
Below are some ideas!
In 1890, William Gilpin, Governor of Colorado, proposed a grand "Cosmopolitan Railroad" that would connect the entire world with a network of railways (including across the Bering Strait).
In 1892, German-American engineer Joseph Strauss (the future designer of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco) presented a plan for a railway bridge across the Bering Strait to the government of the Russian Empire, but it was rejected.
In 1904, a syndicate of American railroad magnates proposed building the Siberian-Aleutian Railway from Alaska through a tunnel under the Bering Strait and then across northeastern Siberia to Irkutsk. The project envisioned exclusive mineral rights within 13 kilometers on either side of the railway. The project was initially rejected, but in 1906, Tsar Nicholas II approved the proposal. Construction was never completed due to the Russian Revolution and World War I (photo 2; by the way, this is a screenshot from a 1906 New York Times article! And it actually says "Czar Authorizes!").
In 1942, the American Foreign Policy Association proposed creating a permanent ferry service between Alaska and the USSR.
In the 1950s, Soviet scientist Pyotr Borisov developed a utopian project for a dam across the Bering Strait. It was hoped that this would not only connect the countries but also change the climate by redirecting ocean currents to melt the Arctic Ocean.
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L Todd Wood, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, flew special operations helicopters supporting SEAL Team 6, Delta Force and others. After leaving the military, he pursued his other passion, finance, spending 18 years on Wall Street trading emerging market debt, and later, writing. The first of his many thrillers is "Currency." Todd has been a national security columnist for The Washington Times and contributed to One American News, Fox Business, Newsmax TV, Moscow Times, Novaya Vremya (Ukraine), the New York Post, National Review, the Jerusalem Post, Zero Hedge and others. He is also founder/publisher of CDM. For more information about L. Todd Wood, visit LToddWood.com.
