Incoming US president and oligarch ally are wreaking diplomatic havoc among Washington’s beholden allies
While Donald Trump has resurrected his designs on Greenland, Elon Musk has backed far-right parties in the UK and Germany.While Donald Trump has resurrected his designs on Greenland, Elon Musk has backed far-right parties in the UK and Germany.
The Europeans have been seeking to shape the president-elect’s perception of how different outcomes will reflect on him. In particular, they have sought to convince him that his support for a mass giveaway of Ukrainian territory in the name of peace would make him look weak. Musk has used X as a megaphone to promote the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party, claiming: “Only the AfD can save Germany”. InIt was a direct challenge to the efforts of Germany’s mainstream parties to quarantine the AfD and exclude it from power, in the run-up to crucial elections on 23 February., adopted in 2022 as a means of regulating tech companies, such as X.
Musk has disseminated heavily distorted accounts of cases more than a decade old involving the sexual exploitation of girls in northern England by gangs of mainly Pakistani men., who was the director of public prosecutions from 2008 to 2013, of complicity, even though he oversaw the belated prosecutions of the grooming gangs.
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