Somehow, we’re living through an airport thriller paperback or a plot Ian Fleming gave up on by Chapter Two. A small democracy is facing down a predatory one-time superpower, holding its own with help from other western democracies, including this one. Then one day, a trillionaire allied with the former superpower flips a switch and the smaller nation finds its defensive capacity crippled.
From The New York Times: He's really going to do it. The president is going to sell out Ukraine to Vladimir Putin for a couple days’ worth of diesel fuel. And he's going to be aided and abetted by that pale pile of evil, Elon Musk.
Already, there is outrage in the Congress about this obvious betrayal of an ally and the obvious leash that Putin has on the president of the United States. The country is on the brink of a sellout that will make Neville Chamberlain look like Richard the Lionheart. There are options, of course.
Musk’s empire is heavily dependent on various contracts with the United States government. Congressional appropriators—hi, Susan Collins!—could turn off the tap immediately and regain control of the public spaces that were deeded over to Musk. I’d think meddling in a war on the side of the aggressor against one of our allies would be in breach of contract, at least.
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