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Musk cut internet to Ukraine’s military as it was attacking Russian fleet (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by spaghettiwestern to c/[email protected]

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If you're hitting a paywall, here's a CNN link to the same story: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's how you put yourself on the CIA and KGBs watch list

[–] spaghettiwestern 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm guessing that as a supervillain (as @[email protected] pointed out), Musk expects the CIA and NSA to have nice thick dossiers on him. Since Musk has Putin on speed dial, the KGB probably shares their file and asks him for updates.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

FSB not KGB

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In this case, he got on the KGB's "thank you and we'll send you some flowers, luvya ❤️" list