CNBC: President Biden says Elon Musk’s relationships with other countries are worth looking into
* When asked if Elon Musk was a potential threat to national security, Biden said the centi-billionaire’s “cooperation and/or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at.”
* Musk has important international business ties through Twitter, SpaceX, and Tesla.
Asked on Wednesday whether Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter CEO Elon Musk posed a threat to national security, President Joe Biden said that the centi-billionaire’s “relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at.”
At a White House press conference on Wednesday, the President was specifically asked: “Do you think Elon Musk is a threat to U.S. national security and should the U.S., with the tools you have, investigate his joint acquisition of twitter with foreign governments, which include the Saudis?”
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WNU Editor: US National Security Adviser has confirmed reports that the administration is considering investigating Elon Musk ....‘You Heard the President’: National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Confirms Administration Considering Musk Investigation (National Review).
Wow!!!!!
The US administration may investigate Elon Musk and Twitter, but nothing on Tic Tok that is owned by the Chinese government.
When Asked If Elon Musk Is A Threat to National Security, President Biden Says It Is Worthy To Be Looked At
Biden asked whether Elon Musk is 'threat' to national security, says relationships 'worth being looked at' -- FOX News
Biden says Musk’s Twitter deal ‘worth being looked at’ -- The Hill
Biden calls for federal investigation of Elon Musk over ‘relationships with other countries’ -- NYPost
Musk's foreign investors in Twitter are 'worthy' of review, Biden says -- Politico
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This is about control of the American political sphere. Musk is for the 1st amendment. therefore he is rocking t boat according to the Democrat aristocracy and he has to go if he is not cowed.
The Democrat elite do not believe in a republican form of government, democracy or freedom, which is why they have to go. Many of their followers do not either.
If the Democrats succeed in gutting the Bill of Rights, then it is time to look to living as an expat or paying your taxes on exiting.
Democrats think that if something is big like a big country, then it is hard to kill it or screw up so bad that it goes under.
Might it be that big things have to be more efficient to exist and that their corruption threatens that efficiency. Might they see this if they look at large animal like an elephant and wonder why it doesn't have cancer more often than it does? If the elephant is not efficient, it dies of cancer. Having one instead of several of that something is not enough.
A large complex society has to have a lot of efficiency. Growing Corruption precludes that. We saw what happen for example, when TPTB lockdowned and FUBAR'd the supply chain. Sure these fools might have hear the buzzword supply chain, but they had no feel or respect for it. They never put pencil to paper and used a calculator or computer to work problems to see how it worked. No, their way was more Hollywood. It was more imperious. It was more Next Generation "Make it so." And the messed it up. They did not have the experience or education for it. a JD is very nice thing for a politician to have especially if they paid attention. But politicians need more than JDs, poly sci, int'l relations or public admin training.
Yep, the process is the punishment. Musk has been very above board about adhering to ITAR rules, telling foreign technical workers they can't just be hired without following ITAR. But just like the EPA, DOI re Boca Chica, they'll throw all sorts of demands, interviews, compliance edicts, SEC investigations, EVERY bureau of the Executive branch weaponized to plague him.
Hell Musk sold off all his personal property in CA just so they couldn't stick their personal income tax hooks in him anymore.
The more I see the perverse progressive inveigling against Musk, the more I am reminded of Atlas Shrugged and Heinlien's Harriman stories. The government bureaucrats doing everything they can to obstruct, delay, interfere, undermine.
"Hell Musk sold off all his personal property in CA just so they couldn't stick their personal income tax hooks in him anymore."
People in the upper echelons of government need to be careful. Not everyone can run a venture like SpaceX and make it a success. You might think you can stick anyone in a job, who has connections and supposedly 20 years experience.
In a large organization I have seen new head honchos come in. I cannot tell you exactly what they did differently and I assume that things would always function as they did, because of bureaucracy and inertia. Well to my shock things ran differently. Couldn't put my finger on it, but things ran differently.
They need to be careful. Good CEOs are not a prevalent as they think. I do assume that the US gov't wants SpaceX to succeed. So we do not have to buy space on a Russian rocket?
Empire of evil.
The world's richest man, Musk is CEO of electric carmaker Tesla which counts China as a key market and production base. Tesla operates a factory in Shanghai, China, which accounted for about half of Tesla's global deliveries last year.
Musk is also CEO of rocket and satellite internet company SpaceX, among others.
Musk previously suggested that tensions between China and Taiwan could be resolved by handing over some control of Taiwan to Beijing. Musk also said China has sought assurances that he would not offer SpaceX's Starlink internet service there.
He also proposed Ukraine permanently cede Crimea to Russia, while saying SpaceX could not indefinitely fund Starlink in Ukraine.
I can give reasons why Crimea should and should not be Ukrainian.
* Ukraine never won Crimea in a war. Russia did form the Turks.
- The Ukrainians asked for protection from the Turks and turned to Moscow.
* Crimea was bartered away by by Kruschev to secure his climb to higher office.
* The last time Crimea had more Ukrainians than Russians was about 1897.
- If you want to be go by Wilsonian Principles, then Crimea probably should be Russian.
I do not like this whole lying thing that WNU engages in, when he speaks of Russian speakers in Donetsk and Luhansk. You can divide the Russian speakers into ethnic Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. It seems than there are more Ukrainians there than Russians. The proper thing is to put it to a vote.
Those ethnic Ukrainians, when speak Russian did so because it was easier under the USSR. also and longer term it was probably due to intermarriage, proximity to more Russian speakers than Ukrainians speakers or commercial interests. It is hard to keep up a language Just like everything your body makes has a metabolic cost, learning or keeping language has a cost in time and money. If not everyone would be multilingual and programmers in several languages.
I think Putin gave up on the honey route in 2014 and went with vinegar partly because he is long in the tooth and wants his epitaph to read a certain way. Same disease that lot of us have.
There is reason to fear Russia because of what happened in Estonia and Georgia. In Chechnya the second time around the Chechnyans had it coming. Think Pancho villa but 100 to 1,000 time worse.
The Tatars do not particularly want to live under Russian rule. Do they get a vote? Maybe there should be a vote, but there are more Russians than anything else. But after the war fiasco, maybe they will want to be in Ukraine. Don't know.
I do not know how hard the Russians would try the pan-Slavic (or eastern Slavic or maybe an eastern Slavic Esperanto) thing. The Pan Turkic thing was conceptualized by Ankara and it has not gone anywhere. Hitler gave the pan thing a bad name.
Still maybe the pan thing would work if it was less about the here and now and a more gradual multi-generational thing.
I don't see why Ukraine could not be integrate with Europe and Russia at the same time. Do trade or customs unions have to be antithetical to one another. I know Prussia used it that way to fight Austria in a hybrid way. There is nothing that says they have to be that way.
DC is backing Taiwan now, because their dander up, they are winning in Ukraine, and they can use it as an issue to stay in office with power. It is not so much that they (or anyone) cares about Ukraine or Taiwan. It is more that it is Machiavellian. Remember DC and the Pentagon were not in for a long war and were panicked when they offered Zelinsky safe harbor.
I see countries similar to the way I see electrical generators. You do not put 2 generators on the same bus unless they are in phase with one another. Otherwise, you have problems. You get a costly mess.
If two countries have the same commercial law, the same criminal law, a lot of trade, etc, then merging them isn't a fuss. It is more of an afterthought.
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