I'm pretty sure we were all duped by Elon. The way I see it, his support for MAGA started long before his actual announcement for supporting Trump, and I'm pretty sure he was already planning to use Twitter as a political tool when he bought it.
Elon is not stupid. He may be silly and socially awkward, but not stupid. He also has a ton of advisors who probably told him that Twitter/X would bleed money, especially the way he's running it. But buying a social media platform, removing all guardrails and supercharging it with relatively good AI like Grok made it a powerful tool for social manipulation.
MAGA and Musk know that the Kremlin supports them, so there's zero reasons to curb foreign influence operations on X. Let them roam free and wreak havoc among Trump's adversaries. 44 billion is nothing compared to what Elon gets from tax cuts and new deals while working under Trump.
But what's their end game now that Trump is the president and they most probably control the Senate and the House, too? Lemme theorize:
As Project 2025 outlines, Trump's (and now Elon's) main adversary is China. Trump has stated that he's planning to launch a trade war against Beijing, and this would affect Tesla's businesses, too. The Tesla gigafactory in Shanghai could be in trouble, and the raw materials required for building electric vehicles could become more challenging without China.
So what's the alternative? Russia, of course! They have plenty of raw materials and Elon was planning to launch a Tesla plant in Russia already back in 2021. Recently, we learned that Musk has been in contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022, as has Trump.
Trump allies like Vivek Ramaswamy have also been saying that “Our goal should not be for Putin to lose,” that the US involvement in Ukraine is strengthening the Russia-China military alliance, and that this can be only prevented by giving Putin what he wants.
So, I think that Trump and Musk will eventually throw Ukraine under the bus, abandon their allies in Europe, lift sanctions against Russia and actually start collaborating with the Kremlin.
I really hope I'm wrong.
Elon is not stupid. He may be silly and socially awkward, but not stupid. He also has a ton of advisors who probably told him that Twitter/X would bleed money, especially the way he's running it. But buying a social media platform, removing all guardrails and supercharging it with relatively good AI like Grok made it a powerful tool for social manipulation.
MAGA and Musk know that the Kremlin supports them, so there's zero reasons to curb foreign influence operations on X. Let them roam free and wreak havoc among Trump's adversaries. 44 billion is nothing compared to what Elon gets from tax cuts and new deals while working under Trump.
But what's their end game now that Trump is the president and they most probably control the Senate and the House, too? Lemme theorize:
As Project 2025 outlines, Trump's (and now Elon's) main adversary is China. Trump has stated that he's planning to launch a trade war against Beijing, and this would affect Tesla's businesses, too. The Tesla gigafactory in Shanghai could be in trouble, and the raw materials required for building electric vehicles could become more challenging without China.
So what's the alternative? Russia, of course! They have plenty of raw materials and Elon was planning to launch a Tesla plant in Russia already back in 2021. Recently, we learned that Musk has been in contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022, as has Trump.
Trump allies like Vivek Ramaswamy have also been saying that “Our goal should not be for Putin to lose,” that the US involvement in Ukraine is strengthening the Russia-China military alliance, and that this can be only prevented by giving Putin what he wants.
So, I think that Trump and Musk will eventually throw Ukraine under the bus, abandon their allies in Europe, lift sanctions against Russia and actually start collaborating with the Kremlin.
I really hope I'm wrong.
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