The billionaire and CEO of several businesses, Elon Musk, has frequently pleaded with both Russia and Ukraine to put an end to their hostilities and find a peaceful resolution. Through his Starlink satellite network, Musk has helped Ukraine by giving it access to the internet.
How Elon Musk Avoids Nuclear Conflict?
However, Musk’s biography, which will published by Simon & Schuster on September 12th, has underlined how Musk avoided a nuclear conflict between Russia and Ukraine. According to the book by Walter Isaacson, Musk covertly instructed his engineers to shut down SpaceX’s Starlink satellite communications network last year in close proximity to the Crimean shore in order to thwart a covert Ukrainian attack on the Russian naval force.
According to the author, explosive-equipped Ukrainian underwater drones “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly” as they reached the Russian fleet.
Ukrainian officials begged Musk to switch the satellites back on after his decision. Musk’s choice, though, motivated by a grave concern that Russia might use nuclear weapons in retaliation for a Ukrainian invasion on Crimea. His fear of a “mini-Peral Harbor” in Crimea unfounded.
Musk has emphasized that SpaceX did not disable anything, though. There was no activation of the Starlink zones. In order to drown the majority of the Russian fleet at anchor, he said, the US administration instructed Starlink to activated all the way to Sevastopol. Elon Musk stated that SpaceX would clearly implicated in a significant act of violence and conflict escalation if he had granted their request.
According to Isaacson’s book, Musk taken aback by the undersea drones’ design but refused to restore satellite service to Crimea because Ukraine “is now going too far and inviting strategic defeat.”
Isaacson asked Musk, “How am I doing in this war?” “Starlink not intended to take part in conflicts. Instead of drone attacks, it was so that people might watch Netflix, unwind, use the internet for study, and carry out good deeds.
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