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Hanoi Jane? Meet
Moscow Musk.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke with Vladimir Putin before pitching his Ukraine peace plan on Twitter that repeated Kremlin talking points (Business Insiderlink): Before tweeting a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine that parroted Russian demands, Elon Musk reportedly met privately with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Eurasia Group founder and president
Ian Bremmer in an email to his organization's subscribers said that he spoke with
Musk two weeks ago. At the time,
Musk told
Bremmer that
Putin explicitly told him that he was "prepared to negotiate" under the conditions that
Crimea remains under
Russian control, that
Ukraine remained neutral, and that
Russia's annexations of
Luhansk,
Donetsk,
Kherson, and
Zaporizhzhia were enforced.
According to
Bremmer,
Putin told
Musk that these were goals he'd accomplish "no matter what," or else he would turn to "major escalation."
Last week,
Musk shared a public poll pitching a plan to stop the war.
Musk's proposal echoed
Kremlin talking points, and he was widely accused of amplifying
Russian propaganda.
Putin has repeatedly and falsely claimed that
Ukraine is not a real country, and has referred to
Ukrainians and
Russians as "one people." The
Russian leader has employed a distorted view of history as one of many justifications for
Russia's unprovoked invasion of
Ukraine.
Bremmer wrote that
Musk said he had refused a
Ukrainian request to activate
Starlink in
Crimea. According to
UK newspaper the
Financial Times,
Ukrainian forces have reported connectivity issues as they continue their counteroffensive into areas previously held by
Russian forces in the east and north-east of the country.
Musk responded by criticising the
FT’s reporting, saying that what happens on the battlefield is “classified.”
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