Twitter hasn’t done everything badly in recent years: the social network that Elon Musk ultimately intends to buy has increased the length of these tweets from 140 to 280 characters. Plenty of space to craft a Russia-Ukraine peace plan, apparently, for the Tesla and Space X boss.
The billionaire posted a tweet in the form of a pollthe 3rd of October :
“Peace Ukraine-Russia:
– Redo the elections of the annexed regions under the supervision of the UN. Russia leaves if that is the will of the people.
– Crimea is officially part of Russia, as it has been since 1783 (until Khrushchev’s mistake).
– Crimean water supply assured.
– Ukraine remains neutral.
Yes No. »
Of the 2,748,378 Internet users who participated in the vote, 40.9% said yes, 59.1% said no, and the affair ignited. It was not to the liking of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who tweeted in response: “Which Elon Musk do you prefer: the one who supports Ukraine? The one who supports Russia? » Traffic jam on Twitter, with 2,431,641 voters, 78.8% of whom prefer the pro-Ukrainian Musk, the one who notably provides Starlink Internet relays to help the Ukrainian defense.
Elon Musk estime that it only states simple ideas: “It’s highly likely that’s the end result – just a matter of how many people die first. » Then warns: “It should also be noted that a possible, albeit unlikely, outcome of this conflict is nuclear war. “I’m a big fan of Ukraine, but not of World War III”added the richest man in the world (200 billion dollars of fortune approximately).
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The affair escalated a little more on October 11 with political scientist Ian Bremmer’s tweet, boss of the geopolitical think tank Eurasia Group: “Elon Musk told me he spoke directly with Putin and the Kremlin in Ukraine. He also told me what the Kremlin red lines wereMr. Bremmer tweeted. I have long admired Musk as a unique, world-changing entrepreneur, which I have said publicly. He is not an expert in geopolitics. »
Elon Musk s’agace, no – ” No, this is not the case. I only spoke to Putin once and that was about eighteen months ago. The subject was space” –, attacks the political scientist – “no one should trust Bremmer” – et posts a hijacked photo of OJ Simpson’s legendary 1994 chase become an image of him “trying to escape the mainstream media” – very Trumpist terminology.
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