Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

   This picture is a good illustration of what I actually think of Ellon Musk (You know his most recent comment on "When it's been 5 minutes and you haven't asked for a billion dollars in aid." On his new social media platform “Twitter Space X MP3 Rocket” or something
 
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukr...023-10-02/
 
 

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   First of all there was a nice debate on France 24 yesterday. The US is not really “the main supporter” of Ukraine. European support to Ukraine is more Military gear and economy oriented, but when you include the UK, the European support in terms of cost is even superior to the US aid which is mostly in the form of weapons and military training.
  
   Second, people had predicted a year ago that countries like Poland, Slovakia and Hungary would keep supporting their eastern neighbor while Western Europe would get tired of it very quickly. In fact the opposite is happening. East-Europeans are currently turning neutral if not pro-Russian while older democracies, including Georgia Melloni’s Italy are growing even more decisive in terms of continuing their support to Ukraine.
 
   Finally, I think Ellon Musk’s Twitter Space X comment is not very logical comment mainly because of this: Most of us do not really know what war looks like. In our subconscious it’s something like some Hollywood movies and/or video games like “Call to duty”. For the greater part of us, you will need to go back a generation or two in order to have people who really understand what war really means. So I don’t blame Ellon Musk for saying what he said.
 
   Still: When there is an emergency, when lives are disappearing on a daily basis, a president will want to have the means to end that madness as soon as possible. So this guy may be headed to a point when he needs some sort of guidance or counseling. And I know that what I am going to say is very cliché but people with some sort of moral or philosophical conviction do that less often. Bill Gates was also this great “self-made millionaire” back in the 90’s but I don’t remember him saying or doing this sort of nonsense at any point.

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