How did Elon Musk get involved in the Ukraine war? This is the subject of the Franceinfo Talk this Thursday, September 14. Ludovic Pauchant receives the Franco-Ukrainian journalist Marianna Perebenesiuk, Olivier Lascar author of “Investigation into Elon Musk” and the blogger, streamer LamHua.
Tuesday September 12, the American journalist Walter Isaacson published in the United States the highly anticipated biography on Elon Musk. The latter spent more than two years in the billionaire’s footsteps and benefited from numerous interviews with him, as well as his family, his collaborators and former employees.
A biography that depicts the billionaire’s obsessions and brutal methods
Elon Musk fully authorized the writing of this work by the “serial biographer”. He depicts a complex, tortured individual, obsessed with the conquest of space and devoid of empathy. According to Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk is described as being a “big kid”, marked by a youth during which he was the victim of harassment at school.
The billionaire considers Donald Trump to be “a slightly crazy crook“, that the “virus woke” poses a risk of derailing the colonization of other planets, particularly Mars, because this activism is “anti-human” and must be “stopped“, according to him.
In his way of managing companies, Walter Isaacson highlights a man “attracted by the storm and the drama”, subject to “unpredictable emotional oscillations”. The biography evokes the excesses of anger of Elon Musk, furious when his employees do not meet his expectations, even ready to humiliate them if they resist.
Elon Musk involved in the war in Ukraine
The American journalist mentions in his work the involvement of the famous billionaire in the war in Ukraine. Elon Musk considers the SpaceX satellite system, which he owns, to be vital for populations located in war zones. If he agreed to help the Ukrainians by providing them with Starlink stations, to face the threat of Russian hackers, Walter Isaacson reveals that the business leader prevented a Ukrainian attack against a Russian navy base. last year.
This network is a key tool for kyiv, widely used by soldiers on the ground. “Had I accepted their request, SpaceX would have been clearly complicit in a major act of war and escalation of conflict” said Elon Musk. These statements were strongly condemned by the advisor to the Ukrainian presidency, Mykhaïlo Podoliak.
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