{"id":118348,"date":"2024-10-25T21:58:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T14:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118348"},"modified":"2024-10-25T21:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T14:58:03","slug":"elon-musk-has-regularly-held-secret-talks-with-vladimir-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118348","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Has Regularly Held Secret Talks With Vladimir Putin"},"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 id=\"\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/elon-musk\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a> has been in regular contact with <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/vladimir-putin\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/vladimir-putin\/\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> and his aides since late 2022, the <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/russia\/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/russia\/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/russia\/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The billionaire has held secret conversations with the Russian president and other top officials\u2014including one tasked with spreading Russian disinformation on Musk\u2019s social media platform X\u2014about business, geopolitics and personal matters, current and former officials from the U.S., Europe, and Russia told the<i> Journal<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report is alarming on several fronts, as Musk has taken on an outsized role in former President <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/donald-j-trump\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/donald-j-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s campaign for re-election. He holds top-secret clearance as the head of SpaceX, which launches satellites that are vital to U.S. national security, and he owns X, a social media platform with <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/explodingtopics.com\/blog\/top-social-media-platforms')\" href=\"https:\/\/explodingtopics.com\/blog\/top-social-media-platforms\" title=\"https:\/\/explodingtopics.com\/blog\/top-social-media-platforms\">600 million<\/a> active users. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One of his Russian contacts was Putin\u2019s first deputy chief of staff, Sergei Kiriyenko, whom the U.S. Justice Department has accused of creating 30 internet domains to spread disinformation, including on X, according to the <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s not clear from the report whether Musk was already talking to the Russians when he was in the process of buying X, formerly Twitter, in the fall of 2022. But since the contact started, he\u2019s begun <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-02-14\/elon-musk-has-a-lot-to-say-about-ukraine-and-a-lot-to-learn')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-02-14\/elon-musk-has-a-lot-to-say-about-ukraine-and-a-lot-to-learn\">criticizing<\/a> U.S. military aid in Ukraine, allowed Russian disinformation to <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tim-walz-false-claims-russian-disinformation-groups\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tim-walz-false-claims-russian-disinformation-groups\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tim-walz-false-claims-russian-disinformation-groups\/\">run rampant<\/a> on X and become Trump\u2019s <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alisondurkee\/2024\/10\/24\/elon-musk-donates-another-436-million-to-pro-trump-america-pac\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alisondurkee\/2024\/10\/24\/elon-musk-donates-another-436-million-to-pro-trump-america-pac\/\">second-biggest<\/a> campaign booster. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Musk didn\u2019t respond to the <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i>\u2019s requests for comment, but after the article came out, he replied to a post on X from political commentator Keith Olbermann saying Musk was operating on behalf of Russia and needed to be detained \u201cimmediately.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOlbermann has achieved the impossible,\u201d Musk <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1849697543543980378')\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1849697543543980378\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1849697543543980378\">wrote<\/a>, before referring to Olbermann by an offensive slur. \u201cSpaceX is the primary communication system of the Ukrainian military on the front lines, because everything else has been destroyed or jammed by the Russians!\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He didn\u2019t deny having contact with Putin, though. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When Russia first invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Musk posted messages of support to Kyiv on Twitter and donated 15,000 of his company\u2019s Starlink terminals to provide internet access in areas where Russian bombs had wiped out Ukraine\u2019s communications infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As the war progressed, however, Russia began putting both public and private pressure on Musk and making implicit threats, the <i>Wall Street Journal <\/i>reported. By September 2022, apparently around the time his conversations with Putin began, Musk was limiting how Ukraine\u2019s military could use the Starlink terminals. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media-item b-article-body__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Musk has reportedly spoken to Putin as his own views on the war in Ukraine have shifted in public\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/UK4EHEPKT5CILEIKCWNB4KYXDY.jpg?auth=b947593a0543e99a74eb9a1b7c082c31c3a46b7c103450e37f4562b4d030ba5e&amp;width=800&amp;height=449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/UK4EHEPKT5CILEIKCWNB4KYXDY.jpg?auth=b947593a0543e99a74eb9a1b7c082c31c3a46b7c103450e37f4562b4d030ba5e&amp;width=274&amp;height=153 274w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/UK4EHEPKT5CILEIKCWNB4KYXDY.jpg?auth=b947593a0543e99a74eb9a1b7c082c31c3a46b7c103450e37f4562b4d030ba5e&amp;width=400&amp;height=224 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/UK4EHEPKT5CILEIKCWNB4KYXDY.jpg?auth=b947593a0543e99a74eb9a1b7c082c31c3a46b7c103450e37f4562b4d030ba5e&amp;width=768&amp;height=431 768w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/UK4EHEPKT5CILEIKCWNB4KYXDY.jpg?auth=b947593a0543e99a74eb9a1b7c082c31c3a46b7c103450e37f4562b4d030ba5e&amp;width=1024&amp;height=574 1024w, https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/resizer\/v2\/UK4EHEPKT5CILEIKCWNB4KYXDY.jpg?auth=b947593a0543e99a74eb9a1b7c082c31c3a46b7c103450e37f4562b4d030ba5e&amp;width=1440&amp;height=808 1440w\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\"\/><figcaption class=\"c-media-item__fig-caption\"><span class=\"c-media-item__caption\">Musk has reportedly spoken to Putin as his own views on the war in Ukraine have shifted in public <\/span><span class=\"c-media-item__credit\">Anadolu\/Anadolu via Getty Images <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier this year, the world\u2019s richest man began <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-02-14\/elon-musk-has-a-lot-to-say-about-ukraine-and-a-lot-to-learn')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-02-14\/elon-musk-has-a-lot-to-say-about-ukraine-and-a-lot-to-learn\">criticizing<\/a> U.S. military aid to Ukraine\u2014a common Trump campaign talking point\u2014and in July he announced he would spearhead a massive push to get Trump re-elected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Over the past three months, Musk has funneled more than <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/musk-sends-more-money-back-trump-giving-44-mln-super-pac-2024-10-25\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/musk-sends-more-money-back-trump-giving-44-mln-super-pac-2024-10-25\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/musk-sends-more-money-back-trump-giving-44-mln-super-pac-2024-10-25\/\">$122 million<\/a> to pro-Trump super PACs, and has been stumping for him in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania. If Trump wins, Musk is likely to get a government appointment in return. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Asked by the <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> for comment on the ties between Putin and Musk, a Trump campaign spokeswoman praised Musk as a \u201conce-in-a-generation industry leader.\u201d She also repeated Trump\u2019s standard line that the war in Ukraine will suddenly and inexplicably end if Trump gets elected because of \u201cstrength\u201d and \u201cdeterrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to veteran journalist Bob Woodward, Trump has had at least seven conversations with Putin since leaving office\u2014claims the Republican presidential candidate has denied even while saying such calls would be a \u201csmart thing\u201d to do. He has long expressed his <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/why-trump-and-putin-now-need-each-other-desperately\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/why-trump-and-putin-now-need-each-other-desperately\/\">admiration<\/a> for the authoritarian leader, even going so far as to <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/23\/trump-putin-ukraine-invasion-00010923')\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/23\/trump-putin-ukraine-invasion-00010923\">call<\/a> the war in Ukraine \u201cgenius.\u201d<\/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.thedailybeast.com\/elon-musk-has-regularly-held-secret-talks-with-vladimir-putin\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin and his aides since late 2022, the Wall Street Journal reported. 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