Here’s an interesting headline from Beatrice Nolan of Business Insider on February 14th:

“Elon Musk says the US should stop sending aid to Ukraine as there’s ‘no way in hell’ Putin will lose.”

Omigod! When will Musk learn to keep out of politics and keep his big yap shut? Stick to what you know, you lunatic, and leave the ruination of the world to the experts.

What’s he done this time? Oh, not much . . . only given Russia the nicest, biggest Valentine he could think of, saying that Ukraine can’t possibly win this war and they should just hand over chunks of their country to Russia. Don’t negotiate . . . capitulate. The very thing that Musk the billionaire businessman would never, ever do.

And since he feels a Russian victory is inevitable, we — the U.S., and presumably the rest of the Western allies — should save our money, thus creating a self-fulfilling prophecy by hastening the end of the conflict, leaving Ukraine dangling in the wind. On the plus side, he also points out that we would be saving a bunch of lives in the bargain.

Okay, saving lives is good; and saving money sounds good . . . depending on what you’re sacrificing in exchange, which in this case is not much: just the sovereignty of an entire nation, along with its freedoms, its amazing history, and its very identity. Not to mention the reputations and consciences of the allied countries that will have allowed it to die.

Now, Musk says that he is NOT an apologist for Putin; that such an accusation is absurd; and that “his companies have done more to undermine Russia than anyone.” [Business Insider, Feb. 14, 2024.] Oh, really? How? By lobbying for cessation of funding to Ukraine? By urging Ukraine to give in to Russia’s claims of sovereignty over large portions of historically Ukrainian territory? Or by worrying that “Putin risk[s] being ‘assassinated’ if he were to back off the fight in Ukraine”? [Id.]

He couldn’t be more of an apologist for Putin if he were a parrot perched on that evil little man’s shoulder.

Ironically, if the tables were turned — if Musk were a Russian citizen urging Russia to withdraw from Ukraine and accept defeat — he would find himself in a Siberian prison so fast his head would never stop spinning. Yet that is the side he chooses to defend . . . the side that he hopes will win this war of attrition that they started . . . the side that just murdered Alexei Navalny for expressing those very opinions.

Elon Musk may be the richest man in the United States and the second richest in the world; he may be a technological and entrepreneurial genius; he may be a gaming wiz without equal. But he apparently knows little or nothing of Russian history in general or Vladimir Putin in particular. And he seems to me to be treading dangerously close to the line of treason when he opens his mouth and spews the sort of garbage that could be construed by some as “adhering to [our] Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” [Article III, Section 3, Clause 1, Constitution of the United States.]

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
2/18/24