One of these is Putin's little bitch.
Recent revelations by US intelligence sources suggest that tech billionaire Elon Musk radically changed his tune on Russia's brutal invasion of the Ukraine after receiving credible death threats from the Kremlin.
Despite frequent denials from Musk, it appears that the owner of the pro-Russian social media platform Twitter is in regular contact with the Kremlin. and tries to be as accommodating as possible to Putin's agenda of blood-soaked state mafia imperialism.
As reported by the Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022.The discussions, confirmed by several current and former U.S., European and Russian officials, touch on personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions.At one point, Putin asked the billionaire to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, said two people briefed on the request.
While there is some room for legitimate disagreements on the war in the Ukraine, Musk's behaviour is odd and highly suspicious, especially in light of the fact that he was originally strongly pro-Ukrainian and anti-Russian, like most fair-minded people, when the Ukraine was brutally attacked in early 2022:
After the Russian invasion in February 2022, Musk at first made strong public statements of support for Kyiv. He posted “Hold Strong Ukraine,” flanked by Ukrainian flags on what was then still known as Twitter. Shortly after, he jokingly challenged Putin to one-on-one combat over “Україна,” the Ukrainian language name for the country.He followed up by donating several hundred Starlink terminals to Ukraine. By July some 15,000 terminals were providing free internet access to broad swaths of the country destroyed by the Russian attacks.
Then in late 2022, after receiving public criticism from the Russian government over Ukrainian use of his Starlink terminals, Musk completely and quite surprisingly changed his tune.
The only possible explanation for this is that he had received entirely credible death threats in private from representatives of the Russian state.
The only possible explanation for this is that he had received entirely credible death threats in private from representatives of the Russian state.
Later that year, Musk’s view of the conflict appeared to change. In September, Ukrainian military operatives weren’t able to use Starlink terminals to guide sea drones to attack a Russian naval base in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula Moscow had occupied since 2014. Ukraine tried to persuade Musk to activate the Starlink service in the area, but that didn’t happen, the Journal has reported.His space company extended restrictions on the use of Starlink in offensive operations by Ukraine. [...] His moves coincided with public and private pressure from the Kremlin. [...] Later in 2022, Musk was having regular conversations with "high-level Russians," according to a person familiar with the interactions. At the time, there was pressure from the Kremlin on Musk’s businesses and "implicit threats against him," the person said. At the same time, Musk increasingly took to Twitter, for which he was completing the purchase, to say SpaceX was losing money by funding the operation of the terminals. In October 2022, he asked his tens of millions of followers on X to vote on a pathway to peace that mirrored some aspects of the Kremlin’s offer to Ukraine at the time.
Such a radical change in "opinion" only makes sense if Musk is viewed as someone in imminent danger of being assassinated by Putin's network of killers.
In fairness it is hard to judge him too harshly for this, as taking out someone as public and high-profile as Musk would be well within the means of the Russian Deep State, and there would be little that the relatively weak US intelligence services could do to protect him.
In fairness it is hard to judge him too harshly for this, as taking out someone as public and high-profile as Musk would be well within the means of the Russian Deep State, and there would be little that the relatively weak US intelligence services could do to protect him.
Musk tweet before major pant-shitting incident
Musk tweet after major pant-shitting incident
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