“We cannot let Putin take over Ukraine.”
WE have no business over there Elon. No go build some rockets and leave the American people alone.
Rockets and allied technologies are the most strategically vital tech ever conceived. There is absolutely nothing more important, both economically and militarily, than holding the “high ground”. Musk has taken that high ground for the US by making spaceflight on an unprecedented scale available. The man has launched over 3000 satellites, more than any nation ever, just as a private venture. This means that, given funding, the US can spam satellites whenever it wants to. Nobody else on earth can do that even if they could come up with the resources.
I have been in the aerospace industry, in my earlier career. I was there on factory floors when we were all doing it sort of on a medieval guild basis. I guess you have to have been in that to understand just how massive this is. I have old contacts and new in there, thats how I have been invited at various times to the SpaceX production facilities. Their ambitions are titanic, on both the rocket launch and telecom fronts.
Musk is a world-historical figure even now. You need to get your mind around that.