“Musk is the guy who says how much contempt Americans have for our servility”

«Frankly, on a methodological level, I must admit that I am having a lot of trouble at the moment. And I understood why I didn’t understand: the West is in complete dislocation and a bit of nonsense is happening», immediately quips Emmanuel Todd, with his undeniable sense of the formula. In “Viewpoints» (Le Figaro TV), the anthropologist returned, with Vincent Roux, to the geopolitical upheavals underway, particularly in Ukraine and Taiwan. In this sense, it is impossible, in this chess game of the global village, not to mention the potential role of the boss of X and next minister of “Government Effectiveness” in the Trump administration.

Elon Musk is “unfiltered”

«There’s something we don’t see in Elon Musk: he’s the richest man in the world and he has no filter. He ch*e on the Germans then on the English – I don’t know what will happen to us French people – but he says it. In reality, when you read American geopolitical scientists, this is what they think of us: they despise us for our servility», asserts Emmanuel Todd.

Beyond the controversies regarding said interference or the unbridled, to say the least, outbursts of the founder of Tesla on his own social network, “ We must recognize that industrially, it works. Elon Musk had the intelligence to return to an activity which is in the production of things”recognizes Emmanuel Todd. Who, however, sees the moon elsewhere when all eyes are focused on the economic expansion of the Musk empire. “We also have to see what is: Starlink, it’s 7 billion dollars in turnover, Space X, 9 billion. Okay, but Boeing falling apart is $65 billion. What’s important in the United States right now is not Musk’s success, it’s Boeing’s collapse», notes the historian who predicted, as early as 1976, in The final fall, the modalities of the fall of the USSR.