Ketamine-brained billionaire Elon Musk and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin have been in regular contact since at least late 2022, and at one point, Putin asked the billionaire to avoid activating his Starlink service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The White House and intel community are well aware of all this and aren’t quite sure what to do – which is probably why they leaked it to the Journal, who write “In the past year, Musk and Russia’s interests have increasingly overlapped. Apart from Russia’s use of X for disinformation and Musk’s outspoken opposition to aid to Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said earlier this year that Russian forces occupying the country’s eastern and southern swaths had started using Starlink to enable secure communications and extend the range of their drones.” Then of course there’s the whole wanting Trump back in the White House thing too. Elon and Vlad are definitely on the same page on that.