Apparently the Russians ships that he saved by sabotaging the Ukrainian effort has helped the Russians to continue bombing civilians. Those ships have been using their missiles from the Black Sea. He doesn't seem to have thought out his decision and helped the Russian Military whether it was intentional or not. In the end that decision cost some civilians their lives....
What do you mean by "sabotaging" the Ukrainian effort ? He denied the Ukrainians Starlink extension into Crimea - which is Russian territory and Starlink does not service Russia anyways. Starlink's terms of use prohibit military use also and this would have been heavy use of Starlink explicitly in a military op.
ueah bur his reason was that allowing the attack would have triggered a russian response with even more deaths. musk thought the response would be nuclear and then ww3 but most likely would have been some rocket attack in a cafe, etc. like few days ago.
avoiding escalation seems like a sensible thing at this point as it’s clear neither side can easily win.
>Ukraine did want to press forward last year, before the fortifications were built. It lacked the necessary weapons, and Elon Musk chose to cut Ukraine off from communications. That move likely extended the war. Because Musk’s decision was based on his internalization of Russian propaganda about nuclear war, and was accompanied by his repetition of that propaganda, he made a nuclear war more likely. If powerful men convey the message that just talking about nuclear war is enough to win conventional wars, then we will have more countries with nuclear weapons and more conventional wars that can escalate into nuclear ones. Ukraine has been resistant to this line of Russian fearmongering, fortunately for us all.
Maybe I missed it, but where in this essay does this professor explain what, exactly, the national interest is for the United States in enabling this war to continue?
Pulling out was the correct decision which both of these sides should not benefit from increased escalation rather than the continuation of war which should not have escalated to invasion in the first place.
