Ronan Farrow has been digging into Elon Muskrat’s connections and allegiances. To the surprise of no one, it’s far worse than we knew.
Last October, Colin Kahl, the then Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and prepared to make a call to avert disaster in Ukraine. A staffer handed him an iPhone—in part to avoid inviting an onslaught of late-night texts and colorful emojis on Kahl’s own phone. Kahl had returned to his room, with its heavy drapery and distant view of the Eiffel Tower, after a day of meetings with officials from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. A senior defense official told me that Kahl was surprised by whom he was about to contact: “He was, like, ‘Why am I calling Elon Musk?’ ”
Musk has been following the Ukraine conflict by tracking activity on StarLink. He has regular conversations with Putin and other senior Russian officials. He spoke to the Russian ambassador immediately before turning off StarLink to thwart the attack on the Russian navy in Crimea.
Even though Musk turned off Starlink again during the attack, the AFU, after turning Russia’s Black Sea Flagship into a submarine earlier in the war, have turned a Russian Kilo Class submarine into a permanent landfill in Sevastopol. The blew the fuck out of a large Russian landing ship as well.
This sub was a platform for missile attacks as well as a threat to shipping. What a fantastic “fuck you” to the Musk-Putin team.
The Ukrainians also blew up a very expensive and rare AA system in Crimea on the day of the dry dock attack. A day later more explosions are being reported in Sevastopol Bay. I wonder if they’re starting to unlock the air defense in Crimea.
I saw that we are planning to send them some fancy new missile launchers that would put the Kerch Strait Bridge well within range. Crimea is Putin’s crown jewel; cutting it off would be a serious blow to him militarily, commercially and egotistically.
Supposedly the US already warned them what happens if they use nukes and the words “catastrophic” and “horrific” were used. Military types have said it would probably be 72 straight hours of constant hell hitting every Russian military asset possible. No nukes needed.
