Wednesday’s Child: The Tunnel of Love
The gentle reader may remember my post of a couple of months ago in which I proved to my own satisfaction – after all, isn’t this what counts in almost every contentious argument? – that the Russians did not kill JFK because they had not the motive to wish him dead. Last week saw more grist to my mill, events that have made my satisfaction complete to practically bursting.
A shrewd intelligence operative of high rank – one Kirill Dmitriev, US-educated, with a background in banking, and at the moment the chief strummer of dulcimer in the halls of the great and the good of Washington – has presented to Donald Trump and his administration plans for a tunnel under the Bering Strait connecting Chukotka with Alaska. This fairground Tunnel of Love, it is understood, would be called the Trump Tunnel. An edifice not only aere perennius, mind you, but at the estimated cost of $65 billion far more grandiose than any Tower, Casino, or Golf Course ideated to date. Vanity has not met such enticement since Narcissus looked in the pool.
The relevance of this event to the story of JFK’s assassination is that the idea of the love tunnel is not new, but was first tooled in 9K gold to appeal to the vanity of none other than President Kennedy. This was amply illustrated in the course of another recent event, the release by Russia’s intelligence services of their dossier on the assassination at the behest of a Republican congresswoman, who hailed the handover as a personal victory. In fact, the dossier had been published as a book by the Moscow publisher HistLit under the title The Assassination of US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet-American Relations: A Collection of Documents.
What the 300-odd pages of documents convey is an absolute obsession on the part of the Kremlin with the prospect of JFK turning into a fully fledged “friend of the Soviet Union.” His “peace strategy” speech of June 10, 1963, in which “the president unveiled the White House’s plan for limiting nuclear arsenals and raised the issue of peaceful coexistence with the USSR,” is clearly to this day the apple of the Kremlin’s eye. He was, to them, what President Trump would be to their successors in recent times, and his death was a veritable bolt from the blue, a tragedy on a par with a fisherman’s loss of some great big fish due to inadvertent malfunction in the tackle. In short, JFK was to Trump, and may the gentle reader excuse such gross irreverence, as St. John the Baptist to Christ Our Lord.
Interestingly, the love tunnel did not completely sink into oblivion with the unanticipated demise of the client for whom it had been commissioned. Elements of it rose from the waves now and again, as for instance in 2007, when, to quote his party’s Executive Intelligence Review, “Lyndon LaRouche was invited to give a keynote presentation at a conference in Moscow on the building of the tunnel under the Bering Strait. President Vladimir Putin showed his insight into the future by describing the project as a ‘war avoidance policy,’ the Peace Through Development concept so drastically lacking in the imperial West today.” In other words, the project had been sitting in mothballs in the Kremlin and on occasion shown from under the tarpaulin to those friendly kooks whose success in US politics was by no means unimaginable. Other kooks included the real estate developer Wally Hickel, a former governor of Alaska and, briefly under Nixon, US Secretary of the Interior, who traveled to Moscow at about the same time to share his own vision of “Peace Through Development.”
Now it has burst forth again with all the force of an original idea whose time has finally come. Unlike the contemplated suspension bridge between Sicily and mainland Italy (“The cables will be composed of steel wires whose combined total length will be 940,000 kilometers, equal to 2.5 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon”), whose main purpose is for Sicily’s Mafia and Calabria’s Ndrangheta to pilfer European funds allocated to the construction, the purpose of this juggernaut is wholly political.
Wide boy Dmitriev, in fact, is on record averring that, instead of the estimated $65 billion, the juggernaut can be ours for a mere $8 billion “if Elon Musk gets involved,” and it’s only surprising that the figure he is quoting is $8 billion, not $8 million or $8.99. The ruling junta in the Kremlin wants more than anything for Donald Trump to get his love tunnel, just as under Khrushchev they wanted JFK to have what had originally been pitched to Washington as the World Peace Bridge.
And then what, gentle reader? They slept on it? They thought better of it and had him killed instead?
I have heard more than once that Lincoln wanted to build a railroad across western Canada (presumably annexing some or all of Canada in order to do it) and then run it across the Bering Strait and connect to the Russian railroad system. Just why anyone would think this would be a good or practical idea is beyond me, unless, of course, he wanted yet another profitable boondoggle to make money off of, sort of like a super-sized Trans-Continental railroad from which he also would have profited handsomely had he lived. It is said that he even contacted the Tsar with the proposal but I have no idea what the Tsar’s response was or if he responded at all.
I assume that the story is nothing but myth, just mildly interesting and ridiculous trivia, but whether it is myth or not, Alberta secessionists have mentioned it in recent months, and in favorable terms, and indeed one of them seemed to be so enamored of the idea of becoming American that I suspected him of treason against his country. Perhaps we should be suspicious as to who might really be behind the western Canada secession movements, or behind Trump’s recent blather about making Canada the 51st state. Seceding from Canada and joining the U.S. would be just about the stupidest thing any Canadian province ever did.
It seems preposterous that Russia would do something like that given a simple CBA. Red Herring seems to come to mind.
See my comment on Mr. Seiler’s recent piece on Argentina wherein Mr. Navrozov and I are very much in agreement on what the end game of all these grand projects is.
Had the project gone forward under Kennedy, the U.S. would still have been able to substantially contribute to the on every level, but today’s U.S. is completely incompetent to accomplish even the simplest public works projects any more. The Russians would get stuck with the lot and it would serve them right as the tunnel would become just another potential entry point for unwanted and dangerous foreigners and their drugs and “culture”. Roger McGrath recently wrote an excellent article elsewhere on the L.A. to San Francisco train line fiasco that speaks to this issue eloquently.
I don’t know Mr. Wilson. Have you seen the recent news from Canada that one mayor there has directed the population to be prepared to vacate their homes as they are giving it all back to the Indians. I think that they will. No wonder this might seem like paradise to the Canucks. Here they have to wait until you go on vacation to occupy your home, then simply have Uber Eats deliver food in the new occupants name to establish ownership. If we stay home we’re safe, relatively.
Sometimes I have strange bedfellows (not in any literal sense, need I add), and this time it’s Rep. Luna, the congresswoman I mention who tried to pass the release in the US of a Russian publication as her own diplomatic coup. “Leading a congressional Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets since February 2025, Rep. Luna alleges on the October 2025 PBD Podcast that a rogue U.S. government faction destroyed Soviet investigation files presented at JFK’s funeral, implicating domestic actors in the 1963 assassination.” To my mind, Rep. Luna, though reasonably cute to look at, is one of a dozen most odious figures in US politics, but there you are.
One has to carve very fine to cut out a dozen, Mr. Navrozov. If one has ever had mold take over a bag of anything consisting of individual pieces (like nuts) you have a good idea of our predicament of government in this country. Like with the mold analogy, they all sort of stick together in a mass.