Why isn’t the destruction of the East Wing and refortification of the bunker underneath the shoveling ceremony for this project? When Chump says he has the military involved in the unseen plans for the rebuild, it’s a euphemism for Hegseth’s Russian advisers. Get Tulsi involved for the bugging for the Kremlin. He alone can fix it for Mother Russia - it’s just another Russian money laundering scheme but yuger.
You’re right, Frank: when they start tossing around phrases like “military involvement,” “rebuild,” or “infrastructure partnership,” it’s rarely about actual reconstruction...it’s about repositioning.
The money trails always tell the real story: funnel it through a patriotic slogan...route it through shell entities...and suddenly the Kremlin’s fingerprints look like “contracts.”
And yes...Tulsi...Hegseth...and the rest of that crowd play the perfect role in that theater: American faces fronting a Russian-flavored cash rinse. “He alone can fix it”…as long as it keeps Moscow smiling.
Who on Earth could want to accept the Trojan Horse you so aptly named? Nobody who is thinking right, for sure! We have somebody wanting to close our border on the south and harm people who have crossed it, harm immigrants who are helping make America a better place, illegally shoot innocent fisherman not even within our borders or waters, give away money to other countries, and open a tunnel from a country that has been against us and threatened us for decades, a tunnel to our country, our country which they have claimed their desire to control and their desire to take back Seward’s Alaskan Purchase, not only for its wealth of resources, but for help in controlling us and invading our country.
When the main person in favor of this tunnel was about seven years old, possibly eight, televisions showed the fearful commercial saying, “We will control your grandchildren.” The sign on the black and white screen said “RUSSIA” in huge letters, and a baby was heard crying loudly. Surely that boy of those years saw and heard the threat, and now he wants to help Russia. Where is logic? Where is loyalty to the oath that is broken repeatedly?
Where are all of the other oath takers? Only some of them are loyal while others of them have become oath fakers, seemingly with no conscience, no sense of duty or representation, and failure to protect Americans and their pocketbooks.
You’re absolutely right...that’s the madness of it all. The same crowd screaming America First is now laying the welcome mat for the very regime that once vowed to “control our grandchildren.”
It’s betrayal dressed up as patriotism. The oaths don’t mean a thing to these people... not loyalty...not duty...not country. But folks like you...remembering what those promises used to mean? That’s how the line holds.
Exactly, Marsha...that’s the contradiction no one in power seems willing to explain. If this is truly a “partnership,” then why are we still treating every Russian aircraft like a potential threat? Because deep down...they know it’s not friendship...it’s leverage. And the tunnel idea isn’t about unity; it’s about access and control.
Ha! Now that would be a hell of a night, Cherae...no teleprompters...no filters...just raw truth...caffeine...and a few people still capable of critical thought. I’d bring the coffee and a recorder… because that conversation would need to be heard far and wide.
Jack, this entire notion is just another red herring...spin this one off into the circular file...this is just more fluff...pure propaganda...the view as an Alaskan...
Totally hear you, James...and I appreciate the Alaskan perspective more than most takes flying around right now.
Quick clarity on my thesis: I’m not saying this tunnel is inevitable or even likely to break ground. I’m saying the PR and normalization around it are already doing work. That’s the real risk:
The “peace/unity/climate” framing softens hard-edged security concerns.
U.S. forums and promoters give the idea domestic oxygen (even if the concrete never gets poured).
Momentum itself creates leverage...studies, MOUs, “partnerships”...that get waved around...when sanctions or oversight tighten.
In the Arctic, even symbolic “cooperation” can translate into presence and access
I get why you’d see this as fluff...especially from an Alaskan lens...where grand projects come and go every election cycle.
But here’s why folks should not be so quick to toss this one into the circular file:
It’s not the tunnel itself...it’s the narrative.
Russia doesn’t need concrete to pour...for this to serve its purpose. The idea alone legitimizes the notion of U.S.–Russia “cooperation” again...right when Putin needs Western normalization most.
The messengers are real and on American soil.
This isn’t chatter from Moscow...it’s being echoed in Washington, D.C. and Anchorage by named Americans with political and business influence. That alone makes it worth watching.
Every PR frame has policy consequences.
When “peace” and “unity” start replacing “containment” and “deterrence” in official language...that softens sanctions...dulls vigilance...and shifts the moral ground before a single shovel moves.
It’s part of a long Russian playbook.
The Kremlin has a history of using economic or “humanitarian” projects...pipelines...energy corridors...academic exchanges...to create leverage and dependency. This fits that mold perfectly.
Information warfare is cheap...and this is gold.
Even if it’s never built...it floods news cycles with Russia’s preferred story: partnership, progress, peace. That’s influence on the cheap, and they know exactly how to milk it.
Dismissal is their oxygen.
The easiest way for a propaganda operation to succeed is to get everyone to shrug and call it meaningless. Once that happens...they win...because nobody’s watching while the narrative cements.
And since you mentioned “red herrings,” let me remind you...of a few episodes from Trump’s time in office...that everyone initially waved off as distractions...right up until they detonated in full view.
Here are five that weren’t red herrings at all:
The Backchannel to Moscow...the Seychelles Meeting
At first it sounded like conspiracy fiction: a secret meeting between Erik Prince (Blackwater) and a Russian investment envoy in the Seychelles to set up a Trump–Putin backchannel. The Mueller Report later confirmed...that envoy was Kirill Dmitriev...the same man now floating the “Bering Link.”
The “No Big Deal” Ukraine Call
Remember when the White House tried to paint Trump’s call with Zelenskyy as harmless chit-chat? It triggered the first impeachment for abuse of power and foreign-policy corruption. Not a red herring...a constitutional crisis.
The “It’s Just Optics” Capitol Rally
Many said January 6 planning chatter was just political theatre. Within weeks...it became a full-blown insurrection attempt...planned in part by people the administration had repeatedly winked at.
The “Business Dealings Are Separate” Myth
Early reports about the Trump Organization’s secret Moscow Tower talks and Deutsche Bank ties were dismissed as irrelevant. They turned out to expose direct conflicts of interest and laundering vulnerabilities that reached into the Oval Office.
The “Personnel Shuffle” That Gutted the System
Replacing career officials with loyalists at DOJ...DHS...and the intelligence community was brushed off as typical political turnover. It was actually the infrastructure of authoritarian capture...a quiet coup in slow motion that’s still paying dividends for him today.
We can't brush these things off so easily. We have...several times in the last decade...and it has wounded the United States of America...deeply.
Again, I must stress this is total bullshit Jack…Think of the building of the AlCan highway 100X…the engineering tho not impossible would tax the entire planet…there aren’t enough oligarchs on this planet to make this happen…it makes me laugh…so, anyway, keep up the good work Jack…and the rest is all just bullshit…
I can't know for sure...but I think you might have just skimmed my last reply, James. Yes...on the engineering side, you’re absolutely right: it’s absurd.
There isn’t enough money...machinery...or political will on earth to actually pull it off. It. Doesn't. Matter.
But that’s exactly the point...they don’t have to build it to get what they want out of it. The idea alone fuels propaganda...legitimacy...and influence. It’s theater dressed up as infrastructure.
One more time....whether it can be done...or can't...is irrelevant. When people get focused on that...they've missed everything that truly matters.
JA, respectfully, everything, as in EVERYTHING, that is happening now is, as you say, total bullshit. Rolling out the red carpet in Alaska for Vlad P was total bullshit. Calling legal immigrants in Ohio the eaters of families’ pets was total bullshit. The campaign promises to build affordable housing using unused government property, to provide a health care plan “in two weeks”, to make America safe all the while having unidentified, masked thugs randomly yanking human beings off sidewalks, out of Home Depots (reportedly with permission of upper management), to remove as many records of patriotic and accomplished non-white military personnel, etc etc is total bullshit.
In short, the current president and his cartel, formerly known as a cabinet, have made their oaths of office total bullshit. (I haven’t forgotten the current president consciously choosing not to put his hand on the Bible held by his current wife, while taking his second oath of office.)
I feel what Jack has written is spot on. Who would have ever thought a human would have walked on the moon, a gadget would scoot around our homes and do the vacuuming, I would be writing this response using a phone?
The value of the arctic and access to it will be the goal of the next decades (along with solving the shortage of water for human consumption).
You nailed it, Mary...the pattern of absurdity is the point. What was once unthinkable becomes “normal” by sheer repetition, until the outrageous starts to feel routine. That’s how power creeps.
You’re absolutely right: the Arctic, the oceans, even water...they’re the next frontiers of control and cash. And once someone owns the choke points, they own the century.
Terry & Bernice...that means a lot. You two get it exactly. The question has never really been, can it be done...it’s who’s willing to try when everyone else has already given up. That’s where change starts. Grateful for your sharp eyes and steady support...next one’s coming soon.
Why isn’t the destruction of the East Wing and refortification of the bunker underneath the shoveling ceremony for this project? When Chump says he has the military involved in the unseen plans for the rebuild, it’s a euphemism for Hegseth’s Russian advisers. Get Tulsi involved for the bugging for the Kremlin. He alone can fix it for Mother Russia - it’s just another Russian money laundering scheme but yuger.
You’re right, Frank: when they start tossing around phrases like “military involvement,” “rebuild,” or “infrastructure partnership,” it’s rarely about actual reconstruction...it’s about repositioning.
The money trails always tell the real story: funnel it through a patriotic slogan...route it through shell entities...and suddenly the Kremlin’s fingerprints look like “contracts.”
And yes...Tulsi...Hegseth...and the rest of that crowd play the perfect role in that theater: American faces fronting a Russian-flavored cash rinse. “He alone can fix it”…as long as it keeps Moscow smiling.
-Jack
Exactly.
A mistake? Is that all this is? WTF?
It’s always more stunning when done in broad daylight.
Who on Earth could want to accept the Trojan Horse you so aptly named? Nobody who is thinking right, for sure! We have somebody wanting to close our border on the south and harm people who have crossed it, harm immigrants who are helping make America a better place, illegally shoot innocent fisherman not even within our borders or waters, give away money to other countries, and open a tunnel from a country that has been against us and threatened us for decades, a tunnel to our country, our country which they have claimed their desire to control and their desire to take back Seward’s Alaskan Purchase, not only for its wealth of resources, but for help in controlling us and invading our country.
When the main person in favor of this tunnel was about seven years old, possibly eight, televisions showed the fearful commercial saying, “We will control your grandchildren.” The sign on the black and white screen said “RUSSIA” in huge letters, and a baby was heard crying loudly. Surely that boy of those years saw and heard the threat, and now he wants to help Russia. Where is logic? Where is loyalty to the oath that is broken repeatedly?
Where are all of the other oath takers? Only some of them are loyal while others of them have become oath fakers, seemingly with no conscience, no sense of duty or representation, and failure to protect Americans and their pocketbooks.
You’re absolutely right...that’s the madness of it all. The same crowd screaming America First is now laying the welcome mat for the very regime that once vowed to “control our grandchildren.”
It’s betrayal dressed up as patriotism. The oaths don’t mean a thing to these people... not loyalty...not duty...not country. But folks like you...remembering what those promises used to mean? That’s how the line holds.
-Jack
If we're good enough friends to build a connecting tunnel, why would we still be scrambling jets if they come near our air space?
Exactly, Marsha...that’s the contradiction no one in power seems willing to explain. If this is truly a “partnership,” then why are we still treating every Russian aircraft like a potential threat? Because deep down...they know it’s not friendship...it’s leverage. And the tunnel idea isn’t about unity; it’s about access and control.
-Jack
Holy shit, Jack.
I would love to have all of you guys in the same room in comfy chairs for this discussion.
Ha! Now that would be a hell of a night, Cherae...no teleprompters...no filters...just raw truth...caffeine...and a few people still capable of critical thought. I’d bring the coffee and a recorder… because that conversation would need to be heard far and wide.
-Jack
Jack, this entire notion is just another red herring...spin this one off into the circular file...this is just more fluff...pure propaganda...the view as an Alaskan...
Totally hear you, James...and I appreciate the Alaskan perspective more than most takes flying around right now.
Quick clarity on my thesis: I’m not saying this tunnel is inevitable or even likely to break ground. I’m saying the PR and normalization around it are already doing work. That’s the real risk:
The “peace/unity/climate” framing softens hard-edged security concerns.
U.S. forums and promoters give the idea domestic oxygen (even if the concrete never gets poured).
Momentum itself creates leverage...studies, MOUs, “partnerships”...that get waved around...when sanctions or oversight tighten.
In the Arctic, even symbolic “cooperation” can translate into presence and access
I get why you’d see this as fluff...especially from an Alaskan lens...where grand projects come and go every election cycle.
But here’s why folks should not be so quick to toss this one into the circular file:
It’s not the tunnel itself...it’s the narrative.
Russia doesn’t need concrete to pour...for this to serve its purpose. The idea alone legitimizes the notion of U.S.–Russia “cooperation” again...right when Putin needs Western normalization most.
The messengers are real and on American soil.
This isn’t chatter from Moscow...it’s being echoed in Washington, D.C. and Anchorage by named Americans with political and business influence. That alone makes it worth watching.
Every PR frame has policy consequences.
When “peace” and “unity” start replacing “containment” and “deterrence” in official language...that softens sanctions...dulls vigilance...and shifts the moral ground before a single shovel moves.
It’s part of a long Russian playbook.
The Kremlin has a history of using economic or “humanitarian” projects...pipelines...energy corridors...academic exchanges...to create leverage and dependency. This fits that mold perfectly.
Information warfare is cheap...and this is gold.
Even if it’s never built...it floods news cycles with Russia’s preferred story: partnership, progress, peace. That’s influence on the cheap, and they know exactly how to milk it.
Dismissal is their oxygen.
The easiest way for a propaganda operation to succeed is to get everyone to shrug and call it meaningless. Once that happens...they win...because nobody’s watching while the narrative cements.
And since you mentioned “red herrings,” let me remind you...of a few episodes from Trump’s time in office...that everyone initially waved off as distractions...right up until they detonated in full view.
Here are five that weren’t red herrings at all:
The Backchannel to Moscow...the Seychelles Meeting
At first it sounded like conspiracy fiction: a secret meeting between Erik Prince (Blackwater) and a Russian investment envoy in the Seychelles to set up a Trump–Putin backchannel. The Mueller Report later confirmed...that envoy was Kirill Dmitriev...the same man now floating the “Bering Link.”
The “No Big Deal” Ukraine Call
Remember when the White House tried to paint Trump’s call with Zelenskyy as harmless chit-chat? It triggered the first impeachment for abuse of power and foreign-policy corruption. Not a red herring...a constitutional crisis.
The “It’s Just Optics” Capitol Rally
Many said January 6 planning chatter was just political theatre. Within weeks...it became a full-blown insurrection attempt...planned in part by people the administration had repeatedly winked at.
The “Business Dealings Are Separate” Myth
Early reports about the Trump Organization’s secret Moscow Tower talks and Deutsche Bank ties were dismissed as irrelevant. They turned out to expose direct conflicts of interest and laundering vulnerabilities that reached into the Oval Office.
The “Personnel Shuffle” That Gutted the System
Replacing career officials with loyalists at DOJ...DHS...and the intelligence community was brushed off as typical political turnover. It was actually the infrastructure of authoritarian capture...a quiet coup in slow motion that’s still paying dividends for him today.
We can't brush these things off so easily. We have...several times in the last decade...and it has wounded the United States of America...deeply.
-Jack
Yes… understood.
Again, I must stress this is total bullshit Jack…Think of the building of the AlCan highway 100X…the engineering tho not impossible would tax the entire planet…there aren’t enough oligarchs on this planet to make this happen…it makes me laugh…so, anyway, keep up the good work Jack…and the rest is all just bullshit…
I can't know for sure...but I think you might have just skimmed my last reply, James. Yes...on the engineering side, you’re absolutely right: it’s absurd.
There isn’t enough money...machinery...or political will on earth to actually pull it off. It. Doesn't. Matter.
But that’s exactly the point...they don’t have to build it to get what they want out of it. The idea alone fuels propaganda...legitimacy...and influence. It’s theater dressed up as infrastructure.
One more time....whether it can be done...or can't...is irrelevant. When people get focused on that...they've missed everything that truly matters.
-Jack
JA, respectfully, everything, as in EVERYTHING, that is happening now is, as you say, total bullshit. Rolling out the red carpet in Alaska for Vlad P was total bullshit. Calling legal immigrants in Ohio the eaters of families’ pets was total bullshit. The campaign promises to build affordable housing using unused government property, to provide a health care plan “in two weeks”, to make America safe all the while having unidentified, masked thugs randomly yanking human beings off sidewalks, out of Home Depots (reportedly with permission of upper management), to remove as many records of patriotic and accomplished non-white military personnel, etc etc is total bullshit.
In short, the current president and his cartel, formerly known as a cabinet, have made their oaths of office total bullshit. (I haven’t forgotten the current president consciously choosing not to put his hand on the Bible held by his current wife, while taking his second oath of office.)
I feel what Jack has written is spot on. Who would have ever thought a human would have walked on the moon, a gadget would scoot around our homes and do the vacuuming, I would be writing this response using a phone?
The value of the arctic and access to it will be the goal of the next decades (along with solving the shortage of water for human consumption).
You nailed it, Mary...the pattern of absurdity is the point. What was once unthinkable becomes “normal” by sheer repetition, until the outrageous starts to feel routine. That’s how power creeps.
You’re absolutely right: the Arctic, the oceans, even water...they’re the next frontiers of control and cash. And once someone owns the choke points, they own the century.
-Jack
“One more time....whether it can be done...or can't...is irrelevant. When people get focused on that...they've missed everything that truly matters.”
Nailed it. You’re absolutely right.
Thank you immensely for the article & just as importantly the responses to the comments in this thread.
Looking forward to the next article.
With gratitude,
Terry & Bernice
Terry & Bernice...that means a lot. You two get it exactly. The question has never really been, can it be done...it’s who’s willing to try when everyone else has already given up. That’s where change starts. Grateful for your sharp eyes and steady support...next one’s coming soon.
-Jack
Anything involving Russia, I just say, “Nyet!”