Elon Musk spoke to Putin before tweeting Russia-Ukraine ‘peace’ plan: report
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During the conversation with Bremmer, Musk reportedly passed along that Putin plans to accomplish these goals "no matter what" and that the alternative would be "major escalation."
Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin before tweeting out a Twitter poll with a highly criticized proposal for a “peace” plan for Russia and Ukraine, according to Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer.
Musk’s poll suggested Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, be formally handed over to Russia and that four other annexed regions — making up 15 per cent of Ukraine’s landmass — re-do a vote on whether to join Russia under UN supervision.
He also proposed Ukraine remain neutral, dropping its bid to join NATO, and that the water supply to Crimea be guaranteed.
In a newsletter sent to Eurasia Group subscribers, which was obtained by Global News after being first reported by Vice News, Bremmer detailed a conversation he said he held recently with Musk.
Bremmer spoke with Musk “two weeks ago,” he said. It was then that Bremmer said Musk told him that Putin, “in a direct conversation” with the Tesla CEO, said he was “‘prepared to negotiate.'”
But, Musk reportedly told Bremmer, Putin’s conditions were threefold: that Crimea be Russian territory with an assured water supply, that Ukraine accepts “a formal status of neutrality,” and that the annexation of the four regions of Ukraine — the result of what Western leaders called “sham” referendums — go ahead.
Those conditions were precisely what Musk laid out in his Twitter poll on Oct. 3.
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