"Inside Elon Musk's Ukraine Dilemma: Exclusive Insights from New Biography"

According to an excerpt from Walter Isaacson's upcoming biography of Elon Musk, the billionaire secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a potential Ukrainian attack on the Russian naval fleet. Musk's decision was driven by his fear of a nuclear response from Russia and his conversations with senior Russian officials. While Musk initially provided Ukraine with Starlink terminals for military operations, he later became concerned when Ukraine used them for offensive attacks against Russia. The episode highlights Musk's unique position as a power broker in the war in Ukraine.