Ilon Musk and Ukraine: On whose side the businessman plays in the Russian-Ukrainian war

So on whose side is the American businessman located? In the first days of a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, there were problems with communication in many areas of the country. Calling on a quick and effective solution to the problem of digital transformation of Ukraine, Mikhail Fedorov publicly appealed to Ilona Mask on Twitter to provide Ukraine with Starlink systems.

The fact that the first Starlink terminals appeared in Ukraine, Ilon Musk wrote on February 27 on his Twitter page. Thanks to such efficiency, Ukrainians were able to evaluate the benefits of satellite Internet in the first months of the war. "In fact, Starlink is an opportunity to access the satellite Internet in all conditions, even if there is no mobile communication.

This is an internet even in the field or in the forest, an opportunity to get a quality and fast internet communication,"- Mikhail Fedorov explained. Interview "1+1". According to the minister, the Satellite Internet Starlink saves not only Ukrainian soldiers, but also residents of occupied cities, where Russian "authorities" restricted access to the Internet. In addition, in the occupation areas, mobile towers are often damaged.

In such cases, the towers can also receive the Internet with Starlink. And the presence of Starlink systems in Ukraine partially solves the problem of ratio shortages for Ukrainian servicemen. Thus, the head of the Vullomy Charitable Foundation Dmitry Yurinov said that thanks to Starlink his organization may not waste time and money on the purchase of races.

Yurinov noted that he did not know if volunteers will be able to provide fighters with means of communication in the absence of satellite communication. The supply of satellite communication systems to Ukraine is not the only act of Ilon Mask that has raised his authority in the eyes of Ukrainians. Almost the first days of the war, Business Magnat has regularly expressed Ukraine's support on its Twitter page.

At the beginning of March, Ilon Musk personally talked with President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky on video. The Ukrainian leader thanked the founders of Tesla and SpaceX for their help, as well as discussed with him possible cooperation in the space sphere. The unprecedented support of Ilon Mask of Ukraine has caused a violent reaction among Russian propagandists.

For example, the former head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin devoted several posts to Ilon Mask in his Telegram-channel, and in particular, warned the billionaire that he would have to "respond in an adult" for providing the Starlinka regiment "Azov". In response to Rogozin's threats, Ilon Musk wrote that he misunderstood the meaning of the word "Nazis" and also ironically spoke about his own death. "If I die in mysterious circumstances, it was a pleasure to deal with you," Musk wrote.

Previously, the former head of Roscosmos also responded to the position of Ilona Mask, where he called Russian President Vladimir Putin for a duel. As a response, Rogozin published an excerpt from Pushkin's poem. In addition to the words of support, Ilon Musk decided to offer Ukraine his vision of the end of the war, declaring the need for "referendums" in the occupied territories and published a corresponding survey among his subscribers.

In addition, Musk repeated Vladimir Putin that the Crimean Peninsula was annexed to Ukraine as a "Khrushchev gift". The opinion of an American entrepreneur on geopolitics provoked an active reaction among social networks, as well as criticized by experts. For example, investment Bankir Sergei Fursa suggested that according to the publication of the mentioned tweets, the personal pragmatic goals of Ilon Mask were hiding. "This tweet is not for Ukrainians.

And this tweet did not lead to a fall in the value of the shares. Still, the world is not Ukrainian-centric. But the fall in the value of the shares has led to this topic. To this tweet,"-writes Sergei Fursa. Volodymyr Zelenskyy also responded to the scandalous publications of Ilona Mask, which BBC writes. The Ukrainian president launched his own survey on Twitter, in which social network users can express their attitude to the position of Ilon Mask.

According to analyst Sergiy Zhdanov, Ilona Mask's tweets about referendums and Crimea indicate that the American businessman is interested in stabilizing the situation at the front as soon as possible, not necessarily in favor of Ukraine. "On the part of Ukrainian-Russian relations, such a position is read as exclusively pro-Russian.

And in American discourse, it is first and foremost upholding the interests of transnational corporations: they will end the war in Ukraine-to end it sooner," Zhdanov writes in his column on the Portal. . Ilon Musk is quite common on Twitter on political topics, while the entrepreneur is not in a hurry to publicly enlist himself to supporters of one or another political force.

Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations of Odessa National University Vladimir Dubovik believes that now Ilon Musk is gradually moving to Trump's side. The expert suggests that the businessman has been influenced by Russian propaganda. At the same time, Sergei Zhdanov calls Ilona Mask a representative of techno -eligation. According to the analyst, over the last decade, the head of technical corporations have been compared to US political parties.

"Technicals are not democrats or conservatives. They are more of the anarcho-capitalists or libertarians: consider the federal government ineffective and outdated, officials-slow and stupid, and the state itself is the largest corporation with a monopoly on violence and poor skills of managing resources. " . Ilon Musk himself often changes his political preferences depending on the situation.

For example, in 2018, an entrepreneur defined himself as an "Utopian anarchist, who was best described by Yen Banks", referring to a cycle of Utopian Banks's Utopian Works of the so-called culture that describes the cosmic civilization with anarch and communist regime of society. In order to mark his views more clearly, Musk even published a schedule in which he showed his attitude to the American political forces in different years.

The picture shows that as the "extremism" increases by the Democrats, the businessman gradually bows to the Republicans. Among the claims against the current Democratic Party, Ilon Musk distinguished restrictions on freedom of speech, in particular, he did not support Donald Trump's blocking on Twitter. The magnate has already taken up this problem: Ilon Musk bought Twitter and is now going to reform it.

Despite the fact that Ilona Mask's recent publications have forced many to doubt his loyalty to Ukraine, the entrepreneur himself reported that he was still ready to support Ukrainians. As confirmation of his words, Ilon Musk again declared his readiness to finance to finance the work of Starlink in Ukraine. "Damn with him . . . Starlink is losing money and other companies receive billions of taxpayers. We will simply continue to fund the Government of Ukraine for free," Musk said.

At the same time, the entrepreneur still sees the danger of further escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian war, which he also reported on Twitter. According to Sergiy Zhdanov, over the next two years, Ilon Musk will try to lavatory between the US political forces, because thanks to the support of Ukraine, the entrepreneur declared himself as an independent political figure.