If I were to die under mysterious circumstances, it was nice to meet you.” This is the message that Elon Musk provocatively entrusted to Twitter (which he recently bought for $ 44 billion and is planning to change radically) just a few hours ago, probably in response to threats made by Dmitri Rogozin, head of Roscosmos.
The head of the Russian Space Agency in fact released a statement in which he accused Musk of having handed over his Starlink terminals to the Ukrainian forces besieged in Mariupol with which to access the internet thanks to the broadband satellite connection:
If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2022
From the testimony that emerged from the captured commander of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Colonel Dmitry Kormyankov, it was discovered that the Starlink terminals of Elon Musk were delivered to the militants of the Nazi Azov battalion and to the Ukrainian marines in Mariupol with military helicopters. According to our information, the delivery was made by the Pentagon. Elon Musk, therefore, is involved in supporting the fascist forces in Ukraine. And for this, Elon, you will answer as an adult. It doesn’t matter how foolish you are.
Indeed, shortly after the invasion by Russia, Musk had sent numerous terminals to Ukraine to help re-establish an internet connection in the country, as tens of thousands of satellite modems had been hacked by Russian forces, according to the Washington Post. On the contrary, Musk explained on March 26th, that the Starlink system had resisted all hacker attacks; a statement was also confirmed by a Pentagon official.
Therefore it is not excluded that Musk’s satellites have a strategic role in the Ukrainian resistance, because they would allow drones dedicated to bombing Russian tanks and other vehicles to be guided; however, there appears to be no evidence of the specific fact mentioned by Rogozin, namely the handover of terminals in Mariupol with the involvement of the Pentagon.
Rogozin has been taking his Russian-language Twitter account private for a few days now, and Musk’s mother replied to her son’s tweet to say that she didn’t find it funny at all:
That’s not funny😠😠 https://t.co/KgLAzY3F8s
— Maye Musk (@mayemusk) May 9, 2022
AN OLD DATE CONFLICT
Apparently, the dispute between Rogozin and Musk has been going on for some time, well before 2022. Eight years ago the chief of Roscosmos stressed the dependence of the United States on Russia to reach the International Space Station saying that they would need ” a springboard “to launch their astronauts without the Soyuz. An exit to which Musk replied six years later – “the trampoline works!” – when a SpaceX vehicle first brought two NASA astronauts aboard the ISS.
Last March Musk had challenged Putin to a duel on Twitter on the subject of the war in Ukraine, and Rogozin had used the lines of the Russian poet Pushkin to answer the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX: “You, little devil, are still young. You are too young. softened to compete with me, it would just be a waste of time. “