Since Elon Musk has apparently become Donald Trump – in that any lie/twist/gaslighting will do to further the narrative, no matter how false it is known to be – last night saw the mainstream media overwhelmed with circle-jerk-justified accusations that Musk meddled in the Ukraine-Russia war to stop a Zelenskyy-driven offensive (that likely would have turned the war and hailed victory ticker-tape parades up and down Kiev’s streets).
Ok, admittedly that last bit was out hyperbole; but given a quick read of headlines from CNN and NBC, we could be forgiven for this view.
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”
As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes.
NBC led with the following headline: Ukraine is furious with Elon Musk for thwarting an attack on Russia’s navy
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has come under fire from Ukraine after it emerged he thwarted a major attack on the Russian navy.
According to excerpts published by CNN, a soon-to-be-released biography of the SpaceX CEO claims that Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his Starlink satellite network over Russian-occupied Crimea last year in order to prevent a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s naval fleet.
Elon Musk last year secretly ordered SpaceX engineers to switch off the Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast in order to thwart a Ukrainian surprise attack on Russia’s naval fleet, according to Walter Isaacson’s upcoming Musk biography. pic.twitter.com/uPto8hm1pW
— The Recount (@therecount) September 7, 2023
The mainstream media did not have to look too far to find someone willing to denigrate Musk:
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, blasted the tech billionaire on X, formerly Twitter, which Musk owns.
“Sometimes a mistake is much more than just a mistake,” Podolyak wrote.
“By not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian military (!) fleet via #Starlink interference, @elonmusk allowed this fleet to fire Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities,” he added.
“As a result, civilians, children are being killed,” Podolyak said.
“This is the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego. However, the question still remains: why do some people so desperately want to defend war criminals and their desire to commit murder? And do they now realize that they are committing evil and encouraging evil?”
Isaacson quotes Musk at the time as questioning “How am I in this war?”
“Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”
Couple quick questions – how would Musk know – pre-emptively – of the attack, and choose to disable Starlink? Is his intel better than Putin’s; better than the CIA’s?
The spin here is utterly mind-blowing.
In fact, according to Musk – who responded to the accusations on X, the details are the exact opposite to how CNN described them…
In fact, Musk NEVER turned Starlink on in those controversial border zones – for exactly this reason, as he feared using this technology near borders could prompt an escalation in the war.
The Starlink regions in question were not activated. SpaceX did not deactivate anything.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 7, 2023
In fact, Musk did not ‘turn Starlink off’ but refused to ‘turn Starlink on’ for Ukraine’s offensive.
There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol.
The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor.
If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 7, 2023
Which makes more sense to you – the richest man in the world unilaterally switching off internet access to pre-emptively thwart a secret attack by Ukraine on Russia in a Blofeld-esque move? Or the CEO of a major communications company refusing to enable his technology to be used to escalate a war that could well lead to armageddon?
Both sides should agree to a truce.
Every day that passes, more Ukrainian and Russian youth die to gain and lose small pieces of land, with borders barely changing. This is not worth their lives.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 7, 2023
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And no, the Russians absolutely did not tell Musk that they otherwise would start permanently disabling the Starlink satellites – or at least try to do so.
The Sevastopol port has been Russian for over 200 years. If the Ukraine/USA seriously endangered Russia’s continued use of it, that could prompt Russia to use nukes. Whether the odds would be 5% or 70%, they’re too high. If Musk believed that and refused to facilitate it, that just means he’s smarter than the retards running US foreign policy.
I don’t understand how using nukes is needed to defend Sevastopol.
Sinking a carrier or two with (conventional) Kinzhals is fully sufficient, and leaves the US in a position to first use nukes – which is a distinction a moral country finds important.
There are no nukes, so there’s that.
I think that is why the big push for “invisible energy weapons”
They need a scary weapon system once the nuke myth is fully exposed for the massive lies and thefts of the long running nuke theatrical production.
Otherwise the plebes might come by the millions with simple firearms and do what needed doing years ago; clean up all the weeds.
Wel…I don’t personally know anyone who has a Nuke, so you’re probably right.
There are plenty of nukes, if you live near a military base, it is targeted. It only takes so many to cover the whole U.S. and they have many times that.
There are no nukes, so there’s that.
Got that right!
And the world is flat, and we landed on the moon…..
“And the world is flat, and we landed on the moon…..”
Dont forget: maui done in by dew.
leaves the US in a position to first use nukes
Nukes! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You’re probably right – logically. When it comes to existential risks (like losing access to the sea from the western half of Russia), I wouldn’t bank on our chosen adversary being 100% “logical” according to our definition. As Putin has said “what good is a world without Russia?”
Try 100% moral instead, for them.
North Korea, destroying their most of their scientists, along with half a mountain, may have been the first truly successful full nuclear fusion (potentially fission) reaction test. Noticeably have stopped ‘bullying’ them ever since, not a coincidence.
If Musk really shut off the switch on the Uke attack then that’s alright by me.
Never forget that the neocon strategy is to turn the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea into “NATO lakes”. Since Murmansk is not practical as its only western seaport, they want to landlock Russia except for their Pacific coast, with Vladivostok its only major port – vulnerable to the Chinese (no matter how improbable their clashing over it seems at present). A landlocked Russia may seem farcical, but it is absolutely the neocons’ desire.
As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes.
Are we to understand that the entire war is being waged not only on publicly available, shared systems, but openly so that anyone with an Internet connection is now aware of this fact?
How stupid are these people and why do they not understand what a ridiculous idea that was?
Monkeys all the way down.
The sheep eat this shit up…………they “feel” they got insider info.
Hypocrite.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, blasted the tech billionaire on X, formerly Twitter, which Musk owns.
“Sometimes a mistake is much more than just a mistake,” Podolyak wrote.
“By not allowing Ukrainian drones to destroy part of the Russian military (!) fleet via #Starlink interference, @elonmusk allowed this fleet to fire Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian cities,” he added.
“As a result, civilians, children are being killed,” Podolyak said.
“This is the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego. However, the question still remains: why do some people so desperately want to defend war criminals and their desire to commit murder? And do they now realize that they are committing evil and encouraging evil?”
Nuland et. al. probably agree with little Micky on his assessment.
WHERE WAS THIS SENTIMENT when NATO and western UKR was genociding the Russian supporting people of the Donbass region in 2014, hmm?
Yeah, it’s known as a double standard of whining, when corrupt evil objects to being thwarted.
Karma’s a bitch.
Mistake?
Tell that to the thousands who’ve lost limbs and lives of loved ones only wanting peace.
That which has been done cannot be undone. Own it.
This war’s dual purpose is to provide large distractions as needed to cover up for plitical chicanery, the final financial rape, and the medical mass murder of hundreds of millions of credulous dupes who CONTINUE to believe “The Liars That Be” that world leaders have only the lowly citizen’s best interests at heart.
Yeah.
If I were musk I would have shut down people using my platform to kill other people.
Otherwise Twitter/X becomes as an active participant in a hot war.
Brainwashing: complete.
No, there are still more minds need washing.
I was talking about the specific commenter.
Never mind.
I sometimes wondered what it would be like to live in a communist country but I was afraid to go there to suffer as you must under such government. What do you know ,it has come to me right here in good ol USA.
Kansas City football fans booed the nigger national anthem ,but are still too stupid to realize if you watch the nigger football league you are empowering them.
Which “white” [jew] wrote the anthem for the dark golems?
Gold star for your handle Ollie.
Fukin funny! I bet you don’t eat watermelon.
Yeah, I would never go to another game if they pulled that anti white hatred out on me.
That’s what it is.
It’s anti white hatred.
If not, where is the White National Anthem?
The uSS CNN was severely damaged in a hot battle with the SS MUSK. After sitting dead in the water for a few hours the uSS CNN sank, just like it’s ratings did earlier.
Imagine you are in the room of the think tank tasked with assignment of pouring over the daily news stories, looking far anything you can remotely fling at the Musk wall, and make stick.
And this is what they come up with:
Musk is bad for refusing to allow certain users to access his satellite system, and use it to kill others.
That where your morals are CNN?
Actually, it is.
CNN regularly spews hatred against straights, whites, moral responsibility and more.
War: The theatrical application of democide.
Poor young democrat cucks and cunts.
Musk used to be their HERO.
Now their “trusted-fact/checked” newz source cnn says he is a poopybutt.
No wonder they ALL have serious mental health problems……boo hoo !
Why should either option be possible?….
Musk is fake and gay, but it is true that the lines really haven’t changed
the war is fake and gay on both sides except for the poor assholes dying
this is a push so that when they make a truce, everyone can pretend they aren’t losing. there is no argument for attrition warfare because no one tells the truth about the numbers, and no one in power cares.
Oceania has always been at war with…
Wow the Hyperbolic Media….cough-cough, I mean…ahem..the Legacy Media does not like being last century’s prom pity date with a cousin.
So Elon never had satellite services to the region because of the possibility of being used in the war.
Interesting.
“Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications…”
🤣..Maybe pineapple, maybe sardines. Maybe both, on his pizza.
Just another talking head who is Totally Owned. Lock, Stock, & Neural Linked to the EVIL that rules this world.
Currently trying to rebrand as ‘X’. ONE of MANY ‘Spots’.
When us Elon going to release the X-files?
Eud?
You are a moron.
Nothing you have ever posted makes sense.
And the fact that you stick to your stand no matter what is infuriating.
I find it hard to believe someone can be as obtuse as you and make it past their 20s.
You never bend at all.
Welcome home!
Oh yeah.
Eud is absolutely awful.
Except when he isn’t.
Greg?
Alrighty then.
Ukraine has lost the war, in a few weeks that will be undeniable to even the worst liars in Washington. The agenda now is find scapegoats to blame the loss of the war on. The Democrats will never accept responsibility for loosing the war, so they will predictably project their own failures upon anyone who has been honest about the war all along.
They also have to make the case to start a new war against China, but that would reasonably require ending the war in Ukraine first.
The real question is, if the US is not able to walk away from Ukraine, will they still start a war in China?
I believe they are indeed that stupid. They seem to have lost all grasp on reality, and are at this point believing their own propaganda and bullshit.
So…they just made up a story from.whole cloth.
See?
Caught em directly inverting the truth….lying to your faces….
And yet people still believe the absurd claims about the moon landings.