(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Elon Musk Talked With Putin as well according to Pentagon. Can we call a duck a duck already? [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-09-07 Adding to the massive pile of evidence that Elon Musk is engaging in activities intended to support Russia I will throw this link which I didn’t see reported here from last week — Elon Musk spoke with Vladimir Putin directly, Pentagon official says The link is from the Independent, UK but You can find the story in Bloomberg and many other completely reputable sources. Of course today here Mark Sumner broke the absolutely outrageous reality of Musk’s personal insertion into the battlefield for Russia Elon Musk personally thwarted a Ukrainian attack and saved the Russian Navy I have been fighting against calls of being a conspiracy theorist since I wrote this diary back in November of 22 making the point which was so clear at that point that the number one beneficiary at that time of turning Twitter into a cesspool of Russian disinformation was none other than — Russia. Hopefully now it is more clear — Elon Musk is now a Russian Asset. Period. By asset it means he is doing the work to aid Russia’s illegal war and their ambitions At the point I wrote the original diary I made reference to his Tweet below and the blunt reality that this Tweet was not information that anyone, anywhere outside of deep Russian propaganda circles would write or believe. When I wrote the post going on a year ago my biggest question was — “How did they get him? was it bribery? Blackmail?” Because what seemed both clear and hard to explain was that Musk had done a 180 on Ukraine. He of course at first gave them Starlink and in addition, even if it was typical Musk theater he had challenged Putin to a fight over Ukraine, absolutely siding with Ukraine. From People magazine in 2022 before the sudden flip “Musk has been outspoken about his support of Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on Feb. 24.” Yes, this is just a statement from People magazine but it was based on his public actions and statements. As I began to write this post I searched for more references and found this from Business Insider regarding that Tweet. BI makes the claim that Musk spoke with Putin prior to writing it — which makes more sense given that it’s Russian talking points and it does help elucidate the situation as follows: The vast majorty of the replies to my post back last year were effectively “Stop being a crazy conspiracist, everything about Elon Musk can be explained with the simplest answer — that he’s a narcissist. To which my answer had been that narcissism doesn’t explain it, but now I have the thought that actually it does — but here’s the full idea: Elon Musk got convinced that a) Putin wasn’t going to stop, that he may even start a nuclear war and as a result, the rest of the world was wrong for continuing the war and that (cue the narcissism on steroids) that Elon Musk was going to save the day by making the war end more quickly in every way he knew how. Looking at Musk’s actions regarding Ukraine it would seem Schizophrenic and the vast majority of commenters did and likely will say “Musk is just unstable, it’s clear” and to refute that there is actually zero indication that Musk is mentally unstable. The only indication that he’s “Unstable” is that he made a radical flip on what appeared to be a dime over Ukraine and that since that moment in time when the flip happened everything he has done and Tweeted has been absolutely stable in achieving the goal. I refuse to accept that Elon Musk believes in the actual conspiratorial garbage that is posted by the lunatic fringe that he has re-populated Twtter with. I will make this relatively short. My Theory is that Elon Musk spoke to Putin and he put together his God Complex and came to the conclusion somewhat like the Atomic Bomb. That by intervening in every way that he could to get the outcome that Putin told him was “Invetibable” and that he came to believe that he would be the hero. The above is 100% my theory. Do I have exact proof of it? Of course not, but it makes a whole lot of sense considering with the new and clear actual actions to support Russia in the war that he is a factual Russian asset. My case in November was that destroying Twitter would take away the best sources of information coming out of Ukraine and replace it with confusion, skepticism and anti-Ukrainian propaganda. The goal of this was to bring down the popularity of the Ukrainian effort and to force politicians to rethink arms funding. Without arms funding the war would fall more towards Russia. It is very simple. It was very simple and as far as it seems from Twitter a big portion of it is taking place. My Twitter is filled to the brim with anti-Ukraine posts. I see over and over MAGA and others posting memes saying things like “Anyone posting a Ukrainian flag is an asshole” (one that I got the other day). Ukrainian channels report that their posts are suppressed but even if that is just anecdote there is no question that the anti-Ukraine momementum is growing and it’s rampant on Twitter. It was clear when Musk posted the pro-Russian Tweet and it’s clear now. Anti-Ukraine is pro-Russia and Musk and his god complex have it as a goal and have since his apparent conversation with Putin — not because he’s unstable, because it is his plan, and it’s all bundled up in his narcissism but now for myself those two ideas actually are now completely compatible. “Hero Elon saves the world from it’s own misundertsanding that the best way for success in this conflict is to have Russia succeed”. Russia didn’t need to pay him anything (which makes sense because he doesn’t need money) and there likely isn’t any important kompromat on him — nope, just plain old selling him on “Super Elon” to the “rescue” I’m interested to see how the response regarding “Is this just conspiracy” now. 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