A few days ago, Timothy Snyder wrote this tweet: "Trump likes being number two. He likes doing the PR work, being in front of the camera, receiving adulation, but serving a superior. Musk will dominate him at home and Putin will dominate him abroad indefinitely [...] For him, there is no tension in that. The spectacle we see live every day from the White House only corroborates what Snyder says.
Musk is, above all, a contractor who wants to squeeze the most out of his privileged relationship with the Trump administration, going so far as to undo it and remake it as he sees fit. But then, or simultaneously, there is the orgiastic component. It is consistent that Elon Musk wants to identify his companies and products with the letter X, which the right-thinking want to read as the sign of the unknown, of the unknown, but which, much more appropriately, is also the letter that represents the dirtiest hardcore porn. Musk is the richest man in the world and has decided that this allows him to live out his megalomaniacal fantasies: a few days ago he proclaimed "we are going to Mars" (the objective of his space flights), shortly before showing off with pleasure with Milei's chainsaw. Musk likes to show himself in disguise: as a gladiator, as a rapper. gangsta, superhero, of cryptobro. "The sense of humor has returned to the White House," he said, as if he were in another movie, probably the Joker movie. In his private life, which he is careful to make public, Musk has made his home into a kind of farm of wives and children, in the style ofThe Handmaid's Tale, with him playing the role of a stud. He loves the cameras as much as Trump does and wants the whole world to see his face, already quite swollen with Botox despite still being relatively young, every day. Musk hopes to take over from Trump at the head of the Republican Party when biology allows it. When that happens, Musk will probably be another scarecrow with orange skin.
In the midst of this obscene atmosphere, three years have passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Musk and Trump want to present themselves as compassionate leaders with regard to the pain of the Ukrainians, which according to the American president was caused by Zelensky and not by Putin. In accordance with this logic typical of the extreme right, they propose to end the war by the expeditious route of declaring the victim guilty and the aggressor the winner, who can take the part of the territory he has conquered and also the part he wants to add. Putin will effectively exercise his influence over the US president on the international agenda, more or less as Musk does on a daily basis. Europe, meanwhile, looks on with helpless stupefaction, China with cold distance, and the president of India, Narendra Modi, another autocrat, with ardent greed. Diplomacy and dialogue between the parties seem to have little place in a new world order that ends a war in false fashion more or less the same way Trump paid for the silence of the porn actress Stormy Daniels.
