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During the Ice Age, there was no strait between Asia and America — only land. Beringia. Across it roamed mammoths, bison, and the first humans. Nature itself had built a bridge between continents. Then the ice melted, the seas rose — and that bridge vanished beneath the waves. In 1890, William Gilpin, a former governor of Colorado and adventurer, dreamed of a Cosmopolitan Railway — a global line circling the planet, with its final mile passing under the northern lights, from Siberia to Alaska. Fifteen years later, a Frenchman, Loïc de Lobel, proposed building a tunnel and leasing a 25-kilometer-wide strip of land along the route. Russia declined — it smelled too much like colonization. In 1918, Lenin signed a decree to build railroads toward the Bering Strait. But the young nation had no time for grand projects. In the 1950s, Soviet engineers seriously discussed an enormous dam across the strait — to stop the ocean, alter the Gulf Stream, and melt the permafrost. Trains and cars would cross the dam, and, as the authors dreamed, “apple trees would bloom on Chukotka.” In the 1960s, American engineer Tung-Yen Lin proposed to Kennedy and Khrushchev a “Bridge of Peace” costing billions. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the idea froze — and luckily, didn’t burn along with the world. In the 1980s, South Korean preacher and sect founder Sun Myung Moon briefly revived the dream. In 2007, Russia officially included a tunnel under the Bering Strait in its development strategy through 2030 as a potential project. In the 2010s, delegates from dozens of countries — the U.S., China, Finland, South Korea — gathered in cold Yakutsk to discuss a “polymagistral”: a rail line, highway, power grid, and fiber-optic cable running through one corridor. Estimated cost: $30 to $100 billion. Payback period: fifteen years. But the construction never began. Why? Because where only 3.8 kilometers separate the Diomede Islands — Ratmanov and Krusenstern — the gap between worlds is far deeper. Different rail gauges. Permafrost and seismic instability. No roads, no ports on either side. Military zones, cordons, missiles. And above all — politics. The project’s realization is impossible without lifting sanctions. But if it ever came true, Russia would become the transit hub between Eurasia and America — and isolating it would be impossible, even on paper. China would gain the shortest trade route to the U.S., bypassing the Panama Canal and the clogged ports of the Pacific. The U.S. would access Russian expertise in Arctic construction. All this — after colossal investments in thousands of kilometers of new railways, bridges, and tunnels through the planet’s most brutal climate. Today, a tunnel across the Bering Strait is not about economics or logistics. It’s a gesture. A political handshake across the coldest strait in the world. And only the mammoths, if they could, would smile and say: “You’re still trying to build what we once simply walked across.” Original Post Join @TranslatedRussianNews

On one side, there’s a guy wearing a tricolor tie. On the other, a guy talking about how he’s interested in building a tunnel between Russia and the U.S. And there you are — sitting in a jacket, asking for Tomahawks. Something’s definitely off here. Original Post Join @TranslatedRussianNews

Many are asking: “Why Budapest?” Some thoughts: 1️⃣ It benefits Orbán. His approval ratings are low, and his globalist opponents are overtaking his Fidesz party. A foreign policy victory — hosting peace talks now and, potentially, later the Ukrainian capitulation — would be a huge electoral boost for him. 2️⃣ It benefits Trump. Orbán is practically his only European ally. Keeping Orbán in power — and positioning himself as a global peacemaker — serves Trump’s interests. He doesn’t want to share the spotlight of “peacekeeper” in the Ukrainian conflict with Erdoğan; it’s far better to stand alongside Orbán, another anti-globalist. 3️⃣ “But what’s in it for us?” you might ask. ⏺A gesture of goodwill toward Trump and Orbán. A diplomatic “bonus” to Hungary — but not for free. In return, Orbán might tighten his vetoes within the EU on key votes (e.g., sanctions). There’s a reason Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó visited Moscow just two days ago. ⏺Keeping Orbán in power also serves our interests. ⏺A symbolic slap in the face to the EU from Russia and Trump. They label Putin a “war criminal,” yet he’ll be flying right into the heart of Europe — and they won’t be able to do a thing about it. ⏺A gathering of the right. Trump, Putin, and Orbán — three of the strongest opponents of the Euro-globalists and the American deep state. It’s an ideological summit of national patriots — a direct challenge to the globalist left. ⏺Putin demonstrates fearlessness and confidence. He’ll be flying through NATO territory to a NATO country, looking out the window at NATO jets — not ours. ⏺It will deepen the cracks in the so-called Western unity. Europeans are already uneasy about Trump’s actions. His personal guarantee of Putin’s safety amounts to a direct challenge to NATO — essentially saying, “Touch Putin’s plane and you’ll answer to me.” 4️⃣ The West would never agree to hold talks in China, Belarus, or India — and Russia wouldn’t accept any Western country with a globalist government. That leaves the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Turkey is unreliable — it plays all sides: sells weapons to Ukraine, trades with Putin, and backed out of the grain deal. The UAE is too Russia-friendly for Kiev and the globalists to accept. So that leaves Saudi Arabia or — the most viable alternative — Budapest. Yes, it’s risky and complicated, but evidently, they’ve decided the game is worth the candle — and the advantages outweigh the risks. #opinion Original Post Join @TranslatedRussianNews

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