"The unfinished history"
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Alaska is where the United States borders with Russia and where the two powers can and should connect. As Matthew Ehret summarized it superbly in his recent Substack article, the idea of physically connecting the US and Russia across the Bering Strait is an old idea because it’s a rather obvious one. It was first advanced already under President Abraham Lincoln in 1864, but sadly, it died with him. It was revived again in 1890 by William Gilpin, the former governor of Colorado, as his “Cosmopolitan Rail” vision, which included building a tunnel under the Bering Strait.
The importance of this project was not lost on the Russian government under Czar Nicholas II and his Finance Minister Sergei Witte who hired a number of American and French railway engineers in 1905 to carry out feasibility studies for the project. Unfortunately, the Czar was soon forced to abdicate, his Prime Minister was assassinated and the project never saw light of day.
It was revived once more under Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration and discussed in 1942 by his Vice President Henry Wallace and Stalin’s Foreign Minister Molotov. Wallace articulated the importance of physically connecting the United States with Russia as follows:
“It would mean much to the peace of the future if there could be some tangible link of this sort between the pioneer spirit of our own West and the frontier spirit of the Russian East.”
However, Wallace would soon be sidelined and replaced with Harry Truman, the clueless tool of the British oligarchy. Once FDR was safely dead, the project was memory holed again: connecting the two superpowers, whether physically, politically, socially, culturally or commercially, fell into disfavor.
In his “Iron Curtain” speech in 1946, Winston Churchill declared the Soviet Union as the enemy of the West. He delivered that speech in front of Harry Truman and instead of cultivating productive cooperation between the US and Russia, the West opted for the Cold War.…..
Much More in the link 👇
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-significance-of-alaska
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