If you love it let it go,

If it never returns, it was probably never yours in the first place.

-Texas probably

They made a blood tithe they feel can never be repaid. Compared to that it’s pretty clear they see all this *waves hand around* as trivial amounts of collateral damage.

They didn’t say he will, they said he can. Musk himself has admitted he did just that with a judgement call. Whether he has a contract or not doesn’t change that.

There were a few recent news articles that discussed some of the content of the new book about Elon Musk in which he shared that he had realized that a particular request for bandwidth could only be for a Ukrainian boat drone strike against Russian warships, so he turned off the coverage in that area to save lives, which disabled all the drones.

Those warships later fired rockets into Ukraine, killing people.

The takeaway most people got from this is that Elon is using his influence to decide who lives and who dies in a foreign war where the US has a stake, and he chose the opposite of US foreign policy.

If you think he’s smart, he is potentially traitorous to US interests, if you think he’s dumb, he still got people killed.