Russia’s Sputnik news agency was quick to interview Russian and American experts on the significance of the Bering Strait tunnel proposal. In an Oct. 17 article Sputnik quoted American University Professor Peter Kuznick: “Instead of all the money we’re wasting on wars and our militaries, wouldn’t it be better to invest that in building a project that can unite people, that can bring economic development, that can make ties that will go beyond the conflicts that divide us?” Kuznick added that the project is a “brilliant” idea representing a “concrete project” that “could get Russia, the U.S., China and even Canada and the Europeans to work together in the interests of ‘planetary development’…. [The project would] ‘unite the whole world’ in a way that counterposes today’s geopolitical conflicts and wars,” Kuznick noted, adding: “The amount of money that it would cost to build the Bering Strait tunnels and electrify that region is really minuscule compared to the amount of money we’re wasting on developing means to be more effective in killing each other.”
Russian Public Chamber member Alexander Asafov called the project “quite bold,” adding: “Given the prospective development of high-speed highways and railways to the Far East, the project could become a prototype for a new transcontinental logistics route.”
