X chief Elon Musk calls for a truce between Russia and Ukraine after revealing he rejected a request from Ukrainian officials to grant access to Starlink satellite communications as a means to launch an attack on Russia’s naval fleet for the coast of Crimea.
The incident was initially detailed in excerpts from Walter Isaacson’s new biography, titled “Elon Musk.”
Isaacson revealed that Ukraine is planning a kamikaze-style drone attack using Starlink to guide the explosives-laden devices to their intended targets.
The author claimed that engineers were ordered to “disable coverage within 100 kilometers of the Crimean coast” and that the drones “lost connectivity and washed up harmlessly.”
Musk actively disputed to block the network posted on X asking: “ELON PREVENTS A NUCLEAR WAR?” but instead indicated that he was simply refusing a request enable the network in that area.
ELON PREVENTS A NUCLEAR WAR?
Elon Musk covertly ordered his engineers to take out Starlink’s satellite communications network during a MAJOR Ukrainian offensive.
This action was taken to deliberately thwart a surprise attack by Ukraine on the Russian naval fleet.
The… pic.twitter.com/I0RtYVuzth
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 7, 2023
“The Starlink regions in question are not activated. SpaceX hasn’t deactivated anything,” Musk replied.
In another X post, he elaborated on the details a bit and denied aspects of the media reporting on the matter.
“There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol. The clear intention was to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor,” he said.
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“Had I acquiesced to their request, SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and escalation of conflict,” he added.
There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol.
The clear intention was to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor.
If I had acquiesced to their request, SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 7, 2023
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Did Musk prevent a nuclear attack on Ukraine?
Musk’s decision not to assist Ukraine in an overt act of civilian war was reinforced by what CNN describes as “an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons.”
That fear was not unfounded.
Isaacson’s book notes that Musk spoke to the Russian ambassador to the United States, who “explicitly told him that a Ukrainian attack on Crimea would trigger a nuclear response.”
Coded texts published by the Washington Post show that Musk repeatedly encouraged Mychailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, to “seek peace” and avoid World War III.
Interesting exchange between Elon Musk and the then Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mychailo Fedorov.
Musk might have saved the world from nuclear war. pic.twitter.com/MPESZaBr7s
— ₦₳VỠé 𝚁𝚂 ᴢ (@Navsteva) September 7, 2023
Musk, according to the book, envisioned Starlink being used “so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”
On Thursday, he again called for peace from his X platform, formerly known as Twitter.
“Both sides must agree to a ceasefire,” he wrote. “Every day that passes, more Ukrainian and Russian youth die to gain or lose small pieces of land, while the borders hardly change. This is not worth their lives.”
Both sides must agree to a ceasefire.
Every day that passes, more Ukrainian and Russian youth die to gain or lose small pieces of land, while the borders hardly change. This isn’t worth their lives.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 7, 2023
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Former Russian President Praises Elon Musk as ‘Last Adequate Mind in North America’
Former Russian president and current deputy secretary of the Kremlin’s powerful Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, pointed to Musk’s concerns about “a retaliatory nuclear attack.”
And his praise for not enabling Starlink seems to indicate that Musk has indeed prevented an escalation of the situation.
In a post on X, Medvedev gave an incredible assessment of Musk standing up to the pro-war crowd in the United States.
“If what Isaacson wrote in his book is true, then it appears that Musk is the last adequate mind in North America,” he wrote. “Or, at the very least, in gender-neutral America, he’s the one with the balls.”
Walter Isaacson, an author and journalist, in his biography of @Elon Musk writes that the businessman closed Starlink last year to prevent Ukraine’s attack on the Russian navy in Crimea.
He worried about a nuclear retaliation attack.
Like what Isaacson wrote…
— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) September 7, 2023
We had the impression that under President Joe Biden, other countries would respect America again.
Instead, Russia points and laughs at the “gender neutral” government without balls.
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