{"id":3479,"date":"2023-08-21T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2023-08-21T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:02:31","slug":"placating-russia-elon-musk-told-pentagon-he-spoke-to-vladimir-putin-directly-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=3479","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Placating Russia\u2019: Elon Musk told Pentagon he spoke to Vladimir Putin directly | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"detail\">\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s chief government officer Elon Musk advised Pentagon officers that he had spoken personally to Russian president Vladimir Putin concerning the satellite-based web SpaceX provides to Ukraine\u2019s army, the New Yorker reported. Elon Musk advised Colin Kahl, then the Pentagon\u2019s high coverage official, throughout an October dialog about Ukrainian forces dropping connection to House Exploration Applied sciences Corp.\u2019s Starlink service as they entered territory contested by Russia, the report claimed.<\/p>\n<figure> <amp-img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/ht-img\/img\/2023\/08\/21\/550x309\/TWITTER-MUSK-BLOCK-0_1692637717860_1692637764522.JPG\" width=\"355\" height=\"199\" layout=\"responsive\"> <\/amp-img><figcaption> Twitter, X Corp., and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is seen.(Reuters) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<section amp-access=\"NOT userSubscribed AND NOT usCountry\"> <template amp-access-template=\"\" type=\"amp-mustache\"> {{^userSubscribed}}  {{\/userSubscribed}} <\/template> <\/section>\n<section amp-access=\"NOT userSubscribed AND usCountry\"> <template amp-access-template=\"\" type=\"amp-mustache\"> {{^userSubscribed}}  {{\/userSubscribed}} <\/template> <\/section>\n<p>\u201cMy inference was that he was getting nervous that Starlink\u2019s involvement was more and more seen in Russia as enabling the Ukrainian conflict effort, and was in search of a option to placate Russian issues,\u201d Colin Kahl advised the New Yorker.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Kahl returned to a place at Stanford College final month.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Elon Musk denied that he had spoken to Vladimir Putin. In a put up on Twitter, the social media platform since renamed X, the billionaire wrote that he\u2019d spoken to the Russian president solely as soon as, roughly 18 months earlier, about area.<\/p>\n<p>The report revives the controversy that erupted after Elon Musk posted so-called Russia-Ukraine peace plans that the Kremlin praised and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy criticized. 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