Published November 12, 2023
Elon Musk has an immense platform, very clear opinions on most geopolitical topics, and he is not shy about sharing them.
Now, he has ‘dared’ opine about the need of start negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, about how the conflict is cutting down an entire generation, and the responsibility that president Volodymyr Zelensky bears on it.
Those of us paying close attention these last 20 months can’t help but feel that Musk is not wrong.
If on one hand the Ukrainian troops have been fighting valiantly, it is also true that time and again Zelensky takes political decisions against the sensible military tactical moves.
The siege of Mariupol comes to mind. Even after the situation became hopeless, the leader insisted they had to defend it to the bitter end – in the city, in the Azovstal industrial zone, in the underground tunnels and bunkers.
Or maybe we can talk about Bakhmut, that Zelensky called ‘the fortress of our morale’ – where endless troops were subjected to the ‘meat grinder’ when every Ukrainian military adviser called for a retreat to a better fortified defensive position.
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
RELATED: Elon Musk escalates feud with Ukraine with tweet mocking Zelensky for ‘going five minutes without asking for a billion dollars’ – prompting Kyiv to post a derisive reply
Published October 2, 2023
- On his X platform, Musk posted a meme of Zelensky with the caption ‘When it’s been 5 minutes and you haven’t asked for a billion dollars in aid’
- It came after the US dropped $6bn aid from bill to avoid government shutdown
Elon Musk escalated his feud with Ukraine last night with a tweet mocking the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky for his pleas for wartime assistance as the future of US aid to Kyiv hangs in the balance.
In a post on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Musk posted a meme showing a photoshopped image of the Ukrainian leader and the caption: ‘When it’s been 5 minutes and you haven’t asked for a billion dollars in aid’.
Musk also owns SpaceX, which provides Starlink satellite communication services that are vital for Ukraine’s defence effort, but his statements have sometimes angered Kyiv since the full-scale invasion launched by Russia in February last year.
Outrage quickly built over Musk’s tweet, and Kyiv was quick to hit back at the billionaire by posting a derisive reply of its own.
On its official page on X, Ukraine’s parliament accused Musk of spreading Russian propaganda, posting its own version of the meme with a picture of Musk and the caption: ‘When it’s been 5 minutes and you haven’t spread Russian propaganda’.
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SOURCE: www.dailymail.co.il
RELATED: Ukrainian Officials criticize Musk for mocking Zelensky: “Don’t you have empathy?”
Published November 2, 2023
Elon Musk came under fire Monday for mocking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s repeated requests for foreign aid as his country seeks to fend off the invasion from Russia.
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Musk posted a meme of Zelensky’s face photoshopped onto an image of a person with their veins popped, accompanied by the text, “When it’s been 5 minutes and you haven’t asked for a billion dollars in aid.”
The post quickly drew criticism from Ukrainian leaders, including Mariana Betsa, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Elon, don’t you have empathy? Ukrainians are killed daily by Russia. We are fighting for our lives, for our families, for our country, for our freedom #StandWithUkraine,” Betsa wrote Monday in a post on X, which Musk owns.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelensky, said any support of Russia is a “direct investment in war, genocide, destruction of the free world, escalation and the right to impunity,” while indirectly calling out those who do not experience the war firsthand.
“Any silence or irony towards Ukraine today is a direct encouragement of Russian propaganda that justifies mass violence and destruction,” Podolyak wrote in a post on X. “Unfortunately, not everyone and not always, being significant media figures thousands of kilometers away from the epicenter of the war, is able to realize what the daily bombardments and the cries of children losing their parents are.”
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SOURCE: www.thehill.com
RELATED: Elon Mask mocks Zelensky over calls for aid
Published November 2, 2023
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk mocked Ukraine’s war-time leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, using a meme to scoff at the president’s calls for Western aid.
“When it’s been 5 min and you haven’t asked for a billion dollars in aid,” read Musk’s message, which accompanied Zelenskyy’s head attached to a famous photo of an agitated schoolboy, who — according to the meme’s etymology — was in a classroom and desperately trying to hold in flatulence.
Musk has had a troubled relationship with Ukrainians and the country’s administration since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion in February 2022, but now they’ve had just about enough of the SpaceX chief and owner of X (formerly Twitter).
