How many rubles does the war cost?
Horsesh*t. Musk signed a contract with the US military for that exact purpose he knew exactly what the starlink was to be used for. Musk prevented the missile cruisers being taken out of the war and the missiles that were fired from them killing civilians in Ukraine. His profoundly arrogant actions mean he has blood on his hands.
I make that $87.6 billion per year. Herr Putler will already be looking for massive subs from the oligarchs.
My (non economist) gut feeling is that Russian government finances will start to become the major factor, the question is when. I can't see the Russians paying that much for another 3 years of military operations in Ukraine. Where are they going to get that much financial credit? 🤣
I'm not defending him, I'm just saying that this kind of action should be assumed by the US as a state, not by a private corporation or individual - and the US went to great lengths to distance themselves from any direct action on Russia, including preventing Ukraine to directly attack Moscow with American weapons. And I don't think he signed up any contract that would put him on the number one russian hit list.
So I would ask more from the US and NATO and less of private corporations and individuals.
Had he signed a contract at that stage in the war?
Do we know what contract he signed?
If you put yourself in his position you might have felt ( or had been )threatened with assassination by Putin(I think he did personally threaten B. Johnson) and he may also have feared nuclear armageddon if Crimea was attacked then.
Plus how do we know that he wasn't operating on a nod and a wink from the Pentagon?
For various reasons I don't think he should be in the position he is in but I don't know how he can be winkled out (or removed more forcefully)
USA is not at war ,otherwise he could be found guilty of treason ,possibly.
Even not at war, I'd wonder if the US officials are quite pissed at Musk. Iike back during the cold war days when US citizen did something that could potentially help the soviets. He's a security risk, and acting like a child with who has tantrums.
I would not be surprised if very privately, he's getting a stern warning.
If not he should be.
The US were not funding starlink at that point.
For that US and EU and NATO should designate Russia as a hostile country at the very least, and treat russian influence accordingly - that means russian media, businesses and political meddling being actively repressed, and yes that includes questionable businesses like Revolut and Kaspersky. And of course things like politicians retiring to Gazprom jobs should end up with long years behind bars.
If the US were at war, there's ways to nationalize his business
This is _quite_ the clarification from the author of the piece.
The dollar to rubble shows the fundamentals of the economy is not good… if it starts to continue to go up past the 100 mark then I think the war will falter
Tesla will be the Delorean of its generation in a few years once their battery tech is overtaken. Won't be worth the scrap value. Musk will crash and burn too.
Russians getting properly blasted
Off topic but (if Pegasus is Spanish)
"What could go wrong"? seems to be " ¿Que puede salir mal ?" -that or they are making the phrase up.
I'm fairly sure Revolut is Latvian? If it is, be assured there is absolutely no love between Latvia & Russia.
It's officially a Lithuanian bank but the founders were a Ukrainian and a Russian and a major early investor has been funded by the Kremlin in the past.
It's certainly the first time I have heard it in the same breath as Gasparom.
Ah I was close but no cigar. That's a bit of a back story there. Wonder is the Russian state still involved.
Disturbing story about death of English soldier..
Zlatti71 on X: "Another "noble" British warrior mysteriously died in Ukraine - he was found in the water with his hands tied up A strange story happened somewhere in Ukraine - another voluntary defender of local democracy and bright future, a former member of the Scots Guards, Jordan Chadwick,… https://t.co/zqzvWkqpVW" / X (twitter.com)
The father of it's founder/investor i.e. the real investor was a senior Gazprom director.
It certainly isn't a ringing endorsement of your writing it off as a failure back in July.
"Let's be honest, this is not exactly a ringing public endorsement. It's patently obvious the offensive has failed and that's just based on Ukraine's own expectations before it."
You quote a US source saying the Ukrainians already have had partial success and yet your own assessment of the counter offensive by Ukraine is failure. Lets be honest and admit there are a lot more moskovytes in Ukraine now turned into fertiliser than there were at the start of the counter offensive.
Meanwhile putin continues to try to kill civilians and Ukraine air defense improves its effectiveness:
Interesting that he's using the word friction in that interview.
Let's be honest, this is not exactly a ringing public endorsement.
Your posts come across as someone who is constantly annoyed with the "performance" of the counter-offensive and want your money back. It's not a film that has to get "public endorsement".
It's a war. They are sacrificing their lives to do what they can under extremely challenging circumstances.
Given how our own neck of the woods is going, I do wonder how much the weather aspect is truly going to play into things? The climate is changing and we've seen the continent experience more extremes, but also much milder-to-hot temperatures in autumn and winter.
The expectation and chatter is around this wet, cold winter we're heading into - but what if it's not? Ukraine won't be immune to the changing climate and if Russia's banking on a frigid winter to stall Ukraine - and it doesn't come hard enough - they might be in trouble. It could be one small situation where climate collapse yields a weird advantage.
Good Guy Declan Rice
That's very good, without friction there is no movement..
Let's be honest you have no interest in posting in good faith. The very article you use as evidence says it is way to early to say of it failed or not.
Between your ridiculous posts on Brexit and now in this thread I have not come across a worse poster.
Point out where collapse was used in the post please.
On the flip side of that, you’d wonder if the Russians have gotten their act together from earlier in the war and haven’t just continued issueing mobniks with rotten Soviet field-kits and battle rations that expired a decade ago (or more!). If not, any Winter could prove fatal to a badly equipped mobnik in a frozen trench. Can only imagine how many died this way already.
All while the AFU will likely have access to decent winter gear, and fresh rations.
Maybe sending more weapons would help, or is that 'escalation'?
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