Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Watch Elon Musk Make His Guests Go Silent w/ His Dark Warning" video.

  1. I'm one of Musk's strong admirers, but I find him misguided here and I have an idea of perhaps why. Numerous publications (Bloomberg, Newsweek, The Independent, The New Yorker, etc.) attribute some credibility to reports, denied by Musk, that around the time of the invasion he talked by phone with Putin, who told him he was willing to use nukes if thwarted in his aims in Ukraine. I bet that's what did it. (Musk went ahead and provided Starlink service to Ukraine anyway—free for the better part of a year, and at a discount since then—which I think was an exemplary move. Without his help it's likely Russia would've annexed most of Ukraine in short order, reducing it to a rump state with Lvov as its capital.)  So I'm saying that Musk is seriously spooked about standing up to the Russia-China-Iran-North Korea axis. He thinks they totally mean business and will escalate with few to no limits. War terrifies him. Of course, Putin is very, very good at issuing threats and having them taken seriously, and for this reason I can't really blame Musk. Even the US government and NATO are clearly somewhat intimidated. For my part, I too think the authoritarian axis means business. I think they likely are indeed willing to start wars all over the place. I am close to saying eagerly intent on. But I differ with Musk nonetheless. Standing up to them isn't optional. If the US and the other democratic countries don't, then we'll be finished in relatively short order: China, Russia and Iran will basically start running the world. Thinking resistance extremely dangerous, the vast majority of lesser powers will quickly submit to the turning tide. The West will be thus isolated, marginalized, rapidly impoverished and soon under direct threat itself. And fewer than ten years might suffice for all this to materialize. For these reasons, I see this as not only the best but probably the only time to stand up for ourselves and for a world where people can for the most part breathe free. Before very long it would likely be too late. We have everything to lose, so the choice right now is to oppose or capitulate.
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