On August 11, Schiller Institute Founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche released the following open letter to President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin. The letter is copied to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The letter is accompanied by three articles from EIR magazine on May 4, 2007, on constructing a Bering Strait tunnel, through which would pass a rail line that unites the rail systems of Eurasia with those of the Americas. The addresses for three of the EIR articles that would accompany Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche’s letter are presented immediately below: “Russian-American Team: World Needs Bering Strait Tunnel!”; “Mendeleyev Would Have Agreed;” “Origins of the Bering Strait Project.”
Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche’s letter states:
To President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin:
When you are meeting in Alaska on August 15, the fate of humanity lies in your hands. Against all the attempts by the opponents of peace, you can not only bring the war in Ukraine to an end, and with it eliminate the Sword of Damocles of the nuclear extinction of the human species at least over this conflict, but you can also reintroduce diplomacy into the relation of the two most powerful nuclear nations on the planet.
But there is something even more elevated you can do, by not only fighting off the threats facing mankind, but by giving the whole world a beautiful vision for the future. You could agree to build a corridor across the Bering Strait, and with that rail and tunnel project unite the rail systems of Eurasia with those of the Americas. This project would open up for development the vast untapped resources of Siberia, as well as the U.S. Arctic resources of oil, gas, precious metals of all kinds, as well as fresh water. Siberia and the Russian Far East hold the largest deposits of raw materials of all the elements which one can find in Mendeleyev‘s Periodic Table, and the joint development of these resources, to which many other resource-poor countries could be invited, could become the perfect war-avoidance program and greatly enhance the prosperity of the world.
In the not so distant future, one could then travel by high-speed railroad around the world, from the most southern tips of Argentina and Chile in Ushuaia and Puerto Williams, all way through the Americas, then through the Bering Strait, across Eurasia, then with a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar, travel all the way through the African continent to the Cape of Good Hope.
