Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”

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    I fucking hate this country. Government supporting one side while idiot civilians do all they can to help the other. It’s not a war crime, but I feel like it should be treason.

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      Well, the US is involved in the war, even if indirectly, and considers Ukraine a strategic partner, so one could say he’s acting against the interests of the US.

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        Honestly the term isn’t used enough to describe Billionaires with how often they’ll sell out their home country or the one they reside in.