Has a peace plan ready forUkraine. But also a "special administrative zone" for Taiwan, as well as a way to restart the Internet in Iran, in the face of mullahs and ayatollahs. A megalomaniac? No, Elon Musk receives the applause of the Chinese ambassador in the United States, deal directly with Putin (even if he denies a meeting with the Kremlin tsar as revealed by Ian Bremmer, the promoter of the Eurasia think tank) and cashes in Washington.
Last Friday the multibillionaire urged the government Use to finance the effort Starlink, the satellite system that allowed theUkraine to ensure a decisive superiority over the Russian army. Alone, he said, we can't take it anymore, even if he corrected the shot on Saturday: let's go ahead anyway, because it's right. But in the meantime, the message has been sent: on the ground as in space, the White House must take due account of the programs of the billionaire scientist in yet another turning point in the incredible career of a genius outside the rules.
Elon Musk and his week of fire: waiting for the Tesla accounts
In fact, during the week, Wall Street will scrutinize with great attention Tesla accounts, waiting to understand the next moves of the electric car leader. But above all, to find out if and how many shares Musk will have to sell to finance the acquisition of Twitter: 44 billion that super Elon has undertaken, barring new twists and turns, to pay by October 28, under penalty of the risk of billionaire penalties imposed by the judge determined to enforce the offer, then reneged, made in the spring by the tycoon.
A defeat? Perhaps. He too, despite having assets exceeding one thousand (or perhaps two thousand) billion dollars, is struggling to scrape together the cash amount. And, judging by the numbers, it is certain that the offer is very generous, at least a third (if not more) higher than the value of the most expensive sparrow chirping in history. Furthermore, given the strict constraints imposed by the authorities (in Europe, in particular), Musk will have his hands tied in the management of messages and their moderation. But the former enfant prodige, who still collects the rights to a video game that he invented at the age of twelve, does not despair: Twitter, he says, is consistent with the "vision xof humanity.
What is it about? Hard to say, at least for now. What is certain is that Musk has gone far beyond his master Niklas Tesla or Thomas Alva Edison in his bet on the future: along the road which, he assures, will lead us to colonize Mars (and thus to escape the pollution of planet Earth), thanks to the satellites and spaceships of Space X financed by Starlink communications, where on Earth batteries but also low environmental impact innovations will contribute to ensuring energy survival. Perhaps financed by cryptocurrencies that the scientist arriving from South Africa (for this reason he will not be able to aspire to the White House) masters in a nonchalant way often to the detriment of the millions of "faithful" scattered above all among the shareholders of the whole planet Stock Exchange.
Elon Musk: visionary? Trump ally? A billionaire unlike any other
A visionary? Certainly yes. A bluff? Certainly not, even if the multi-billionaire, 51 years old, has demonstrated on more than one occasion that he has an in-depth knowledge of the arts of poker, snubbing the injunctions of the stock market authorities. A Donald Trump ally? It would seem so, given the closeness to Peter Thiel, the other billionaire who managed the choice of pro-Trump Republicans in view of the mid-term elections. He himself tweeted that the choices of the Democrats "force" him to vote on the right. He certainly looks nothing like the billionaire philanthropists typical of US history. He, unlike the various Carnegies, Rockefellers, Buffets or Bill Gates, does not think he has to make up for the excessive accumulated wealth with a commitment. After all, all that he has collected has not been used to buy yachts or dream homes. On the contrary, Musk is fully committed to realizing the dream of ferrying humanity towards the future as he sees it.
In foreign policy, Musk wants to play the game on his own
For this reason it is not easy to place it in a vision of US foreign policy. He is not a champion of the open society like George Soros rather than of universal peace, as Andrew Carnegie, the king of steel who met Kaiser Wilhelm on the eve of the World War, tried to be. No, Mr. Musk is convinced he can play the game on their own, without ideological constraints or snares that hold back his planetary vision: he supports Ukraine unreservedly but has gone so far as to formulate a compromise that allows Putin to keep Crimea and have guarantees on Kiev's non-alignment. Zelensky's flat no ("We won't buy a single Tesla" hissed in Ukraine), as well as Taiwan's response to Xi's expansionism which, among other things, saved the business from lockdowns to the last of the Tesla factory in Shanghai.
But the no opposites to Tesla's patron at home and abroad do not stop Musk's activism, a political and business reference point destined to grow. Partly because no one like him offers the idea of an alliance between the world of energy (battery and solar), mobility (Tesla) and communications (Starlink) renewing the topicality of a scientific and rational response to the problems of growth. But, above all, Musk has an ace up his sleeve: without Starlink, would Ukraine have put Putin under Putin's armies? The ex-boyfriend from Johannesburg (mother still attractive, a former model) may be an expert in bluffing, but he has found a way to read other people's cards.
