Starry Knight

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an American businessman and social media figure, Elon Musk (@elonmusk). He's best-known for being the wealthiest man in the world, running companies like Tesla Inc., SpaceX and Twitter, and for parroting Kremlin's propaganda narratives.
1/23

[Rabbi Shmuel Reichman @ShmuelReichman]

The most important video on the internet!

This is a breathtaking moment that occurred in the UN.

Now more than ever, we need to remember the ethnic cleansing of the historic Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa. 

Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen: 

Where are your Jews?

There’s a much larger story here… there always has been… and there always will be.

[Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦 @bctallis]

We believe

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Insanity. These people would be first to be stoned to death by the "progressive" terrorist groups they are defending. The same type as the leftist idiots who think Russia is "anti-colonial" just because it's hostile to the US.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

✍️ No joke, but the UN is a increasingly a joke...

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

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[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Maybe Elon just doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds his companies?I'm sure his lobbying power in the US will keep his businesses going even after his "anti-establishment" hot takes,but we will probably never see him criticizing the likes of Russia, CCP or Saudi Arabia.
24/24

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

It would probably be impossible or extremely expensive to produce cars, rockets and other technology without the raw materials from Russia or China, and the US sanctions imposed on the former have probably already made it more difficult.

23/24

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

...Trump and co. as they would "disrupt the aluminum markets" and Deripaska intended to invest 200 million USD in a Kentucky aluminum mill, but this plan eventually failed.

But business is business, even when it comes from a Russian oligarch, and I'm sure Elon knows this.

22/24

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

...accounts for almost 9% of the world's aluminum output. He was sanctioned by the Trump administration in Apr 2018 for alleged illegal wiretapping, extortion and racketeering, and he also allegedly ordered a murder of a businessman. The sanctions were later watered down...
21/24

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Tesla Inc.'s conflict mineral report from 2022 reveals that Russia (as well as China) is a country of origin for their gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten. Tesla has also been buying aluminum from Rusal since 2020. Rusal was founded by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and it...
20/24

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

To conclude: Why is Musk pushing, among other things, the peace plan where Ukraine would lose a lot? My theory is that the war is bad for business. His businesses require a lot of raw materials, and both Russia & China are in the top 3 of the biggest raw material producers.
19/24

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Musk has removed plenty of barriers to slow down the spread of disinformation,including EU's voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation. At the same time, he's complied to censorship requests from Indian and Turkish ruling parties by removing and restricting content.
18/24

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

For some, Twitter has become more "free speech". But for others, not so much: On 13 Jun 2023, Musk-led Twitter suspended the Twitter account of Aaron Greenspan, a critic of both Tesla and Musk. His project, PlainSite, that shares court filings for free was also suspended.

17/24

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Elon has called himself a "politically moderate",but in 2022 clearly chose a side,saying that he could "no longer support" the Democrats due to their politics & encouraged people to vote Republicans in the midterms.DeSantis announced his run for presidency on Twitter Spaces.16/24

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Of course all this has been used for propaganda purposes by Russia, and these days Elon appears often on RT's headlines allegedly agreeing that the Ukrainian counterattack is failing and the 2014 Revolution of Dignity was a coup.

15/24

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

These narratives are heavily promoted by Musk and his Twitter platform, promoting Russia's biggest adversaries as "psyops" and Ukraine as a corrupt nation ruled by far-right militias. As you know by now, they come directly from the Kremlin propaganda playbook.

14/24

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Musk has strongly promoted one of the biggest liars and Putin cheerleaders in the US media, Tucker Carlson. In the first episode of his new "show" on Twitter, Carlson implied that the Kakhovka Dam was destroyed by the Ukrainians without offering any solid proof.

13/24