2023-09-07 14:27:07
2023-09-07 22:27 Compiled by United Daily News Zhou Chenyang / real-time report
According to excerpts from the new biography “Elon Musk” by author Walter Isaacson, tech billionaire Musk secretly ordered his engineers to shut down satellites off the coast of Crimea in 2022, CNN exclusively reported. The chain satellite communication network disrupted Ukraine’s sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet.
When UUVs carrying explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connection and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson wrote.
The book excerpt disclosed by CNN pointed out that Musk’s decision made Ukrainian officials beg him to turn on the satellite once more, and the reason why he did so was that he was extremely worried that Russia would use nuclear weapons in response to Ukraine’s attack on Crimea. The dialogue makes this fear clear.
The fact that Musk’s fears regarding what he called a “mini-Pearl Harbor” did not materialize in Crimea revealed the unique position he found himself in when the Russo-Ukrainian war began. Whether intentional or not, Musk has become a power broker that American officials cannot ignore.
According to another excerpt, when Ukraine began using Starlink terminals to launch offensive attacks once morest Russia, Musk also began to question the decision at the beginning of the war. He asked Isaacson, “How am I in this war? Starlink isn’t regarding being in war, it’s regarding people watching Netflix, relaxing, going to school online, doing nice and peaceful things, not drone strikes” .
Isaacson is the renowned biographer of Jobs and Einstein, and his new book “Elon Musk” offers new insights into Musk and how his existential fear of sparking a wider war drove him to reject Ukraine’s request to provide them. Starlink system that can be used to attack the Russians. “Elon Musk” is published by Simon & Schuster and is scheduled to be released on the 12th.
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