EIR’s Claudio Celani and Prof. Enzo Siviero, known as a “bridge builder” in Italy, have issued a call to Presidents Putin and Trump to take inspiration from Italy’s decision to build the Messina Bridge, and launch construction of the Bering Strait Tunnel. Here is the statement:
“In announcing the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and President of Russia Vladimir Putin, to take place in Alaska on August 15, TASS quoted Kremlin advisor Yury Ushakov saying: ‘Russia and the U.S. are close neighbors, bordering each other. It seems quite logical that our delegation should simply fly across the Bering Strait, and that such an important and long-awaited summit between the leaders of the two countries should be held there.’
“The two Presidents, Ushakov continued, ‘will undoubtedly focus on discussing options for a long-term peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis,’ adding that ‘the economic interests of our countries intersect in Alaska and the Arctic, and there are prospects for implementing large-scale, mutually beneficial projects.’
“One such project is the Bering Strait Tunnel, a vital link in filling out the visionary Lyndon LaRouche’s concept of a World Land-Bridge, allowing the Eurasian and American continents to be linked by high-speed rail.
“The Bering Strait Tunnel project was proposed at a conference sponsored by the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2007 in Moscow, and was endorsed by then-Alaska Governor Walter Hickel. At that conference, academician Alexander Granberg presented the project for a 6,000-km rail-road-pipeline-power corridor including an 85-100 km tunnel under the Bering Strait. In 2011, despite its political difficulties, Russia authorized $65 billion in financing for the project.
“The recent decision by the Italian government to officially start the construction of the Bridge over the Strait of Messina, another vital link of the World Land-Bridge, might serve as an inspiration to launch another challenging infrastructure work, such as the Bering Strait Tunnel. The Messina Bridge has been compared to Brunelleschi’s cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, in terms of unprecedented engineering challenges which many looked skeptically at, but which were brilliantly solved.
“The Messina Bridge is bringing Europe closer to Africa, and the two continents will be finally part of the World Land-Bridge when the next project, the connection between Sicily and Tunisia called TUNeIT, is built. With these great infrastructure projects and the Bering Strait Tunnel, mankind nurtures the dream of connecting all continents in a future based on cooperation without wars.”
Signed,
Enzo Siviero (bridge builder, rector, online university eCampus Italy)
Claudio Celani (co-editor, EIR Strategic Alert Service)
