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🧵EXCLUSIVE: Musk’s top DOGE operative linked to Russian pro-monarchist network tied to Putin's Ministry of Defence & inspired by the 1930s fascist “Technocracy” movement - of which Musk’s grandfather was a member. Via @BylineTimes /1 bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/mus…

This story reveals what's driving Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" - an ideology compromised by ties with Vladimir Putin's regime, and inspired by the Technocracy "Technate of America" vision to annex Canada, Greenland, Panama and beyond /2 bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/mus…

A former DOGE official and longtime Musk employee – working at PayPal, SpaceX and now X – Branden Spikes - is connected to a movement for the revival of the Russian monarchy with close ties to the Russian Government including its Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs. This network believes Russia is engaged in a mortal civilisational war with the West. /3

The same network has links via Musk’s family to a 1930s technofascist movement. Known as ‘Technocracy’, the movement wanted to redraw the map of the United States to encompass vast swathes of territory from Canada to Greenland to Panama and Columbia and dreamed of replacing democracy with an “efficient” authoritarian regime run by engineers – paralleling what the Trump-Musk administration is doing today /4

This investigation builds on the work of former Washington Post reporter @briankrebs, who unearthed the role of Musk's Director of IT at X in his 'inner circle of trust' at DOGE for two months /5 krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/who-is…

Krebs revealed DOGE operative Branden Spikes' marriage to a Russian woman, Natalia Haldeman, who is not only deeply involved in pro-Kremlin Russian American networks with ties to Putin's government, but who is also very close Elon Musk's own family. Below is Spikes with his wife Natalia (far left) - the other two men are Russian Americans with pro-Kremlin ties /6

Spikes' ex-wife Natalia Haldeman was previously married to Elon Musk's cousin, and grandson of his maternal grandfather Joshua Haldeman. Here's a photo Natalia posted on her Facebook of her mother with Elon's mother, Maye Musk, daughter of Joshua Haldeman /7

My @BylineTimes story digs a bit deeper. We discovered that Russian networks Natalia Haldeman is involved with are sponsored by pro-Kremlin hardcore Russian monarchist groups: groups which staunchly advocate the replacement of democracy with monarchy /8 bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/mus…

One of them is the Russian Noble Assembly which has close ties with Russia's Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, among other departments in Putin's government. Another is the Russian-Imperial Union Order (RIUO), which pines for Tsarist resurgence /9 bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/mus…

The DOGE operative's relationship with Musk's family is also critical. Joshua Haldeman, the grandfather of both Musk and Natalia's ex-husband (Reeves) before she married Musk's longtime acolyte Spikes, was a white supremacist, Nazi sympathiser and supporter of apartheid in South Africa. But he was also a leader in "Technocracy Incorporated" - as was reported years ago by @jimstewartson /10

Technocracy Inc., of which Musk's grandfather was a member, called to replace democracy with a more "efficient" authoritarian regime of engineers. They hated lawyers, civil society, business, teachers. They disliked "aliens and Asiatics". They opposed the war against the Nazis. They hated conventional money and the "price" system - just like Elon /11 bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/mus…

Technocracy Inc also wanted to create a "Technate of America" - a greatly expanded United States which would annex Canada, Greenland, Central America, parts of Columbia, and Venezuela. Territories Trump is threatening today. Technocracy Inc. died out, but its ideas did not. They were taken up and resurrected by techbro ideologues like Curtis Yarvin, whose ideas have been swallowed by Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Andreessen, JD Vance, Michael Anton, etc. Yarvin was even invited to a Jan 2025 Trump inauguration event /12 bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/mus…

We're now getting a clear picture. The role of Elon Musk's longtime acolyte working with him in three of his major companies unveils how DOGE is a Trojan horse. Through Branden Spikes, DOGE is connected to pro-Kremlin Russian monarchists linked to Putin's ministries of defence and foreign affairs, Musk's own family, and the Technocracy movement resurrected under Yarvin's 'Dark Enlightenment' - all aligning on the vision of replacing democracy with a racist techno-autocracy. This is what DOGE is about: systematically dismantling democracy and the economy to create a monarchic autocracy under the control of Musk and the interests he represents, which includes the Russian deep state. Yes, it's a coup. And let me be clear. The endgame is not the end of the American republic. That's just the beginning. The endgame is the dismantling of the entire Western geopolitical order, international institutions, democracy, national sovereignty, the rule of law, and basic principles of equality and equity for people. If you want to understand in more depth how we got here, and what's really happening, read my book ALT REICH: THE NETWORK WAR TO DESTROY THE WEST FROM WITHIN alt-reich.com