2023-10-02 14:31:05
He published on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter) an image that shows a character with the face of Volodímir Zelenski. “When it’s been five minutes and you haven’t asked for a billion dollars in aid,” the caption reads.
However, this tweet caused a wave of discontent in Ukraine. Thus, the country’s Verkhovna Rada decided to respond to the billionaire with a similar meme, replacing the image and the text: “When five minutes have already passed and you have not yet spread Russian propaganda.” However, following a few hours, the post was deleted.
“The case in which a guy, Elon Musk, tried to conquer space, but something went wrong and in 5 minutes he was covered in shit up to his eyes,” wrote Ruslan Stefanchuk, president of the Verkhovna Rada, referring to the repeated failed launches of the rocket from the SpaceX company, founded by the magnate.
On September 30, US President Joe Biden signed a short-term funding bill to keep federal agencies open until November 17, following the Capitol approved a finance plan at the last minute that specifically excludes any new transfer of funds to kyivAt the end of June, the CEO of Tesla agreed with South African businessman David Sacks, who assured that Washington will face a defeat in Donbas similar to the one it suffered in Afghanistan. Musk also acknowledged in January that there are many risks for Ukraine if the conflict with Russia takes on greater warlike and geopolitical dimensions. That text was in turn replicated on Twitter by David Sacks, who also considers that Washington’s involvement of these dimensions “seems incredibly risky.” At the beginning of October 2022, the billionaire launched a survey on Twitter regarding a hypothetical peace agreement between Moscow and Kiev that would include, among other conditions, the neutrality of Ukraine and referendums on accession to Russia, supervised by the UN, in the people’s republics of Donetsk, Luhansk and the regions of Kherson y Zaporozhye. He also cast doubt on Ukraine’s victory, recalling that its population is three times smaller than Russia’s, and urged support for peace initiatives between the two states.
For its statements regarding the conflict in Ukraine, the controversial Ukrainian website Mirotvorets added the tycoon to its list, noting that the businessman supposedly “has contributed to Russian propaganda on more than one occasion.” However, his profile was on the website for 15 minutes, following which it was deleted.
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