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Nope, you have the wrong understanding. Elon musk is at the head of a company that builds rockets. He has the future of western space endeavor in the palm of his hand, and and will continue to do so for decades at this rate. He has agreements with the US government. You don't get to mess around with geopolitics and play games when you're operating at that level. If he didn't want to be subject to such scrutiny, he should have stuck to making cars and then people would just be upset and not outraged.

He must be investigated for this so that the extent of his play becomes apparent, if any. He may be innocent, that is an acceptable possible outcome, but he really has gone too far this time.

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I mean, in a way, if he's at that level, he probably DOES get to mess around with geopolitics and such and get away with it. USA rocket industry in his hands? Sounds like a get out of jail free card.

They'll just take it from him if he does. Unfortunately, we don't live in a Marvel movie.

If buying wrong aluminim for consumer grade vehicles is such a crime, then you may be interested to know where USAF gets steel alloys for fighter jets.

>If buying wrong aluminim for consumer grade vehicles is such a crime, then you may be interested to know where USAF gets steel alloys for fighter jets.

OK, curiosity is killing me. I've got no dog in this fight but would like to know where the USAF get steel alloys for jet fighters.

Honeywell sourced some metal for the F-35 from China and historically the US government's had to do some political gymnastics to source titanium for military use from Russia, beyond that I don't know. Presumably the implication is that USAF is getting steel from Russia as well. To take the innuendo a bit further if the USAF does it surely it must be okay for Tesla Musk to do it too. Of course, that argument conveniently omits that Tesla Musk, after paling around with Putin, is publicly encouraging American allies (Taiwan, Ukraine) to surrender sovereign land to American adversaries.

Whether or not Russian aluminum is sanctioned is largely irrelevant to the problem of Mister Musk inserting himself into major geopolitical events while the pro-Putin gang demands that Elon's critics rid themselves of these horrible political tones.

Don't misrepresent the problem. Having phonecalls with Putin to discuss terms for the carving up of Ukraine because you buy aluminum for consumer grade vehicles from Russia is the problem here.

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