Oddbean new post about login | logout Elon Musk sees #Ukranian military secrets via #starlink movements. Russia must've realized this & bamboozled him w/ fav old trick: nuclear threats. So Musk intervened to stop an attack🤦 What stops 🇷🇺 from manipulating / flattering Musk into revealing what he knows about #ukraine 1/ https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/027/169/049/350/688/original/f5cf8acb2bbb9fed.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/027/169/864/168/035/original/d4c6cc38ad76de3f.png https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/027/170/971/919/470/original/b81888cb138631b4.png
2/ Walter Isaacson gives us the portrait of a man susceptible to flattery. Read it. Musk took decisions with tremendous downside risks for #Ukraine because Russians convinced him that he understood the situation. He manifestly did not. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/07/elon-musk-starlink-ukraine-russia-invasion/
@e68a5c0d Elon helped Putin with the starlink block not because he was 'afraid of a nuclear response' but because he was promised an economic opportunity. He's a collaborator.
