Anne Applebaum
Last October, Ukrainian sea drones hit several Russian ships in Sebastopol, occupied Crimea. Instead of World War III, the attack helped reduce violence, protect commerce, and maybe even ensure that some people outside Ukraine didn’t go hungry.
Crimea is now an armed camp, stocked with ammunition, artillery and missiles that will be aimed at Ukrainian cities. Ukraine has to destroy these objects if it wants to survive.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/
Elon Musk Let Russia Scare Him

The billionaire isn’t the only one who’s been frightened into holding back help for Ukraine.

The Atlantic
Sep 13, 2023 at 8:45amWeb
Show threadRomulusSep 13, 2023
@anneapplebaum It is Sevastopol, not Sebastopol. At first, I thought you made a typo, but this is a second post.
Show threadRamon BabackSep 13, 2023
@rominator @anneapplebaum it's probably a French spelling here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_de_S%C3%A9bastopol
Boulevard de Sébastopol - Wikipedia

Show threadInsubstantial PageantSep 13, 2023

@anneapplebaum
So, are we to believe and reinforce the "I was afraid" excuse of a purported genius with more money than sense?

A genius, I might add, who believes propaganda and conspiracy theories, either uncritically or cynically?

Interesting how our social order grants man-children like that the power to interfere in anything of consequence. And that cults of personality form around them, uncritically or cynically.

We are not a serious species.

Show threadxs4me2Sep 13, 2023

@anneapplebaum

Indeed. In fact the world would be better off if the Russian Federation was resolved and disarmed…

Show threadNonya Bidniss 🥥🌴Sep 13, 2023
@anneapplebaum He may be rich and a thoroughly unmitigated asshole, but you gotta give him this: he's not particularly smart.
Show threadJW prince of CPHSep 13, 2023
@anneapplebaum why should we assume or believe that he was scared? He helped Vlad because he identifies more with him than with Zelenskyy & the people of Ukraine, it's as simple as that - but he obviously knows he can't say that, out loud so he cooks up a palatable lie, as he's been caught doing time & again. Stop giving him credit he's done nothing to deserve.
Show threadTony CavaSep 13, 2023
@anneapplebaum Does General Dynamics get involved in deciding how or when the weapons they sell to the US are used? We should strip this man child of this defense businesses, compensating him of course (after deducting whatever amount taxpayers have already paid him for development etc) then send him off to shit-post to his heart’s content.
Show threadKen KemperSep 13, 2023
@anneapplebaum space Karen gets punked regularly.
Show threadAndiSep 13, 2023
@anneapplebaum someone needs to hold the private citizen & US govt contractor legally and financially accountable for continued sabotage to a US & NATO ally’s operations. He’s a corrupt AF ideologue & Putin puppet
Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️Sep 14, 2023

"If Washington, London, Paris, and Berlin had not been spooked by Russian propaganda, then the Ukrainians might have expelled the Russians earlier, and the war might be over.

Death, horror and terror have been the result every time outsiders hesitated to aid Ukraine...

Resistance doesn’t provoke Putin; weakness does."
~@anneapplebaum
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

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Elon Musk Let Russia Scare Him

The billionaire isn’t the only one who’s been frightened into holding back help for Ukraine.

The Atlantic