Moscow Musk

August 29, 2024

News broke this week that Elon Musk has a couple of Russian oligarchs as investors in his “X” Twitter company. They are small shareholders, but his coziness with the Kremlin is nothing new. In 2023, he refused to extend Starlink internet access to Ukraine and prevented a surprise attack on Russian warships after speaking with a Russian “friend”. On August 19, a bloodthirsty warlord, Chechen Republic President Ramzan Kadyrov, thanked Musk online for shipping him a Tesla Cyber truck as a gift. He mounted a machine gun on top and took it for a turn on video. Kadyrov invited Musk to visit and thanked him for providing Starlink service in the war zone to help Russian troops. He said, “Special respect from the fighters!” Musk denied he gave away the truck but habitually meddles in politics everywhere. He has now become one of Donald Trump’s biggest donors, and on August 26, Trump even invited him to join his cabinet “if he has the time for it.”