National security questions arise. The gender confusion doesn’t stop at Elon Musk’s companies. Last year, the Washington Post revealed that in September 2022, Elon Musk blocked a Ukrainian maritime drone attack on the Russian navy by locally disabling broadcasts from its Starlink satellite network. According to the author of the article, Walter Isaacson (Musk’s biographer), the Starlink boss was warned of the Ukrainian attack by the Russian ambassador in Washington, who assured him that his country would respond with a nuclear attack. An anonymous Pentagon official expressed concern, to the New Yorkerthe crucial role played by Starlink in the war in Ukraine, and, more broadly, the growing dependence of Defense on the billionaire’s companies: “We live on his good graces. It sucks! (That sucks!)”.
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At the end of October, the Wall Street Journal revealed that Elon Musk and Russian President Vladimir Putin have spoken more than forty times since 2013. The parties denied this, but the information was later confirmed to the Associated Press agency by an anonymous source. The Russian president even asked Elon Musk not to activate his Starlink satellite system over Taiwan.to be of service to Chinese President Xi Jinping” . Two Democratic senators, Jack Reed and Jeanne Shaheen, requested, on November 15, that the Department of Justice open an investigation into these revelations. A law of 1799 (Logan Act) prohibits a private citizen from interfering in American foreign policy.
It is unlikely that Congress, dominated by Republicans, will engage in such an investigation even though Donald Trump is already involving his new friend in his exchanges with heads of state. A few days after his election, during a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump handed the phone to Elon Musk. While he is not yet inaugurated president, Donald Trump also authorized the billionaire to meet the Iranian ambassador to the United States, for unknown reasons. Anonymous Iranian sources told New York Times that the meeting was “positive” and called it “good news”.
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