{"id":118238,"date":"2024-10-25T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T07:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118238"},"modified":"2024-10-25T14:51:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T07:51:12","slug":"musk-has-regularly-talked-to-putin-faced-implicit-threats-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118238","title":{"rendered":"Musk Has Regularly Talked to Putin, Faced &#8216;Implicit Threats&#8217;: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tTech billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/elon-musk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elon-musk\" data-tag=\"elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> and Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/vladimir-putin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_vladimir-putin\" data-tag=\"vladimir-putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> have been regularly contacting each over the last two years, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/russia\/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <\/a>reported on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe topics of discussion have included personal matters, business, and geopolitical issues, according to current and former United States, European, and Russian officials. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAmong many of the deeply concerning revelations in <em>WSJ<\/em>\u2018s report include a request from Putin made last year asking Musk to not activate his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/russia\/\" id=\"auto-tag_russia\" data-tag=\"russia\">Russia<\/a> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/russia-payment-hurdles-with-china-partners-intensified-august-sources-say-2024-08-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/russia-payment-hurdles-with-china-partners-intensified-august-sources-say-2024-08-30\/\">heavily relies<\/a> on China for trade, including industrial equipment and consumer goods, and to weather Western sanctions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMusk faced further tensions from the Kremlin in 2022, following his strong public support for Kyiv after the Russian invasion in February that year. Musk donated several hundred Starlink terminals to Ukraine, providing free internet access by July to large areas of the country devastated by the Russian attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHowever, by May 2022, Russia\u2019s space chief said in a Telegram post that the tech billionaire would \u201canswer like an adult\u201d for providing Starlink to Ukraine\u2019s Azov battalion. Later that year, a person familiar with the conversations said that Musk was communicating regularly with \u201chigh-level Russians\u201d and that the Kremlin had put pressure on his businesses and made \u201cimplicit threats against him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAround this time, Musk became more critical of American aid to Ukraine and blamed the terminals in Ukraine for why SpaceX was losing money. By October 2022, Musk reached out to his followers on X to support a peace agenda that \u201cmirrored some aspects of the Kremlin\u2019s offer to Ukraine at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn February of this year, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson invited Putin for a two-hour long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/tucker-carlson-vladimir-putin-interview-ukraine-1234965053\/\">interview<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter), where Tucker has a paid partnership with the Musk-owned social media platform. During the conversation, Putin launched into a 30-minute lecture on Russian and Ukrainian history, while claiming Ukraine had no independent national identity to justify its sovereignty \u2014 a claim historians and Russian propaganda experts have categorically rejected.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules a-span1 lrv-u-padding-b-1 u-padding-b-175@desktop-xl lrv-u-padding-t-025 u-overflow-hidden u-border-color-brand-primary u-border-tb-5 lrv-u-padding-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  recirculation-modules-heading lrv-u-flex u-font-family-theme-primary lrv-u-font-size-20 lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-position-relative lrv-u-padding-b-025 lrv-u-padding-b-1@desktop-xl lrv-u-padding-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s no stopping Elon Musk, he\u2019s going to do what he thinks he needs to do,\u201d Putin told Carlson. \u201cYou need to find some common ground with him, you need to search for some ways to persuade him.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ trending-in-article a-span1 lrv-u-padding-b-1 u-padding-b-175@desktop-xl lrv-u-padding-t-025 u-overflow-hidden u-border-color-brand-primary u-border-tb-5 lrv-u-padding-b-1@mobile-max\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  trending-in-article-heading lrv-u-flex u-font-family-theme-primary lrv-u-font-size-20 lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-position-relative lrv-u-padding-b-1 lrv-u-padding-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\tTrending<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOne current and one former intelligence source told <em>WSJ<\/em> that Musk and Putin have continued to stay in contact. The report is concerning given that Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, has become one of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/elon-musk-maga-trump-butler-rally-last-election-1235127211\/\">key supporters and sources of cash<\/a> in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMusk has recently come under the scrutiny of the U.S Justice Department\u00a0after offering payouts  \u2014 and a chance at $1 million \u2014\u00a0 to registered voters who get registered, swing state residents  to sign a \u201cPetition in Favor of Free Speech and the Right to Bear Arms.\u201d The Department of Justice\u2019s Public Integrity Section \u2014 which overlooks federal election laws \u2014 issued Musk a letter warning that his million-dollar\u00a0sweepstakes for registered voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/elon-musk-voter-registration-pay-scheme-1235140092\/\">may be illegal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/elon-musk-vladimir-putin-conversations-threats-1235142693\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech billionaire Elon Musk and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been regularly contacting each over the last two years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday night. 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