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- At the beginning of the war, Musk transferred a large number of Starlink satellite Internet stations to Ukraine. This was a significant factor on the battlefield, because it helped our defenders effectively coordinate their actions among themselves.
- However, in October 2022, the scandalous businessman published his so-called “peace plan” between Ukraine and Russia. In it, he played along with the Russian propaganda, calling Crimea “Russian territory” and offering Ukraine to remain “neutral” in exchange for peace. After this statement, shares of his most profitable company, Tesla, fell by several dollars.
- Probably one of the richest people on Earth constantly gets into scandals due to belief in conspiracy theories and the desire to look for an “alternative opinion” in everything. Accordingly, Russian propaganda became such an “alternative opinion” to the official US position on the war in Ukraine.
- At the same time, Musk medially supports the popular pro-Trumpist “chatty head” Tucker Carlson, who, after being fired from American television already denied the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station by the Russians and interviewed the President of Hungary, in which he called Ukraine’s entry into NATO “unrealistic.”