Elon- No good deed goes unpunished. Evil bastards try to make Elon a scapegoat.

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Appearing at the @allinsummit yesterday, @elonmusk addressed the controversy that erupted over the past week when an excerpt from @WalterIsaacson's new biography of him was released.

The excerpt alleged that Elon turned off Starlink access to Crimea in order to prevent a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian fleet based at Sevastopol last year. Elon has clarified (and Isaacson has acknowledged) that he didn’t turn off anything. Starlink had never been activated over Crimea because of U.S. sanctions on Russia. Ukrainian officials asked Elon in a late-night call to activate it for purposes of launching a highly provocative attack on the Russian fleet. Concerned such an attack would prompt an escalatory response — perhaps even a nuclear one — from the Russians, Elon refused the request. He told us at the All-In Summit that had the request come from the White House, he would have honored it.

For this, Elon has been called “evil” by a high-level Ukrainian official, and treasonous by the usual warmongers here at home. The military blog 1945 questioned whether he was “fit to run SpaceX” and whether the company needed to be nationalized. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow claimed Elon was “intervening to try to stop Ukraine from winning the war.” CNN’s Jake Tapper called Elon a “capricious billionaire” who “effectively sabotaged a military operation by Ukraine, a U.S. ally.” He demanded to know of his interview subject, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, if there should be “repercussions” for Elon’s actions.

Tapper’s tirade echoed almost verbatim a cranky tweetstorm by neocon attack dog David Frum, who demanded Elon be investigated and stripped of his government contracts. According to Frum, Elon “confessed” to an “abuse of power” that “thwarted what might have been a decisive military operation to shorten the Russian war against Ukraine, (and) save who knows how many lives.” In Frum’s fantasy narrative, Russia would have responded to the drone attack by turning tail and leaving Ukraine, rather than massively escalating the war.

A Baseless Frenzy of Attacks

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