Musk has been in secret contact with Putin since 2022, says bombshell new report

No wonder he is besties with Trump!

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-in-secret-contact-vladimir-putin-since-2022-claims-wall-street-journal-report-us-ukraine-russia-war-starlink/

According to the Journal's intelligence sources, Musk and Putin continued to have talks into this year, even as Musk began to ramp up his criticism of U.S. military support for Ukraine and became actively involved in the election campaign of Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump.

Putin once asked the entrepreneur to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese President Xi Jinping, two people briefed on the request said.

The bombshell claims land at a critical time in the U.S. election campaign, but the businessman's influence extends far beyond politics, via his social network platform X and his tech company SpaceX, through which he has megabucks government contracts and high-level security clearance to classified U.S. information.

In October 2022, Musk also began tweeting a series of Kremlin talking points about the war, which he presented as a plan for peace, but triggered major pushback from top officials in Kyiv, even from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy himself.

In early 2024, Ukrainian military intelligence reports said that Musk's satellite service was being used by the Russian army on the Ukrainian front.