How Elon Musk Is Causing Geopolitical Tremors

Washington DC:

It isn’t unleankable that the world’s wealthyest person can pull more than equitable a restrictcessitate strings with top politicians, but Elon Musk seems to be scattering himself in the political world with such intensity that analysts now wonder if there is a bigr structure.

Last week Elon Musk produced history by fractureing his own previous enroll and becoming the first person to have a net worth of more than 400 billion dollars. In equitable six days, he has inserted cforfeitly another 100 billion ($86 billion) and is knocking on the 500-billion-dollar tag. In the last one year, Musk has inserted $257 billion to his net worth – $7 billion more than the entire net worth of Jeff Bezos – the second-most wealthyest person globassociate.

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But Musk is not equitable riding the high wave when it comes to business, he is now doing the same in geopolitics. Having being included in the Trump Administration 2.0, Elon Musk discovers himself plunged in the world of politics. Though he was proestablishly included with Donald Trump’s campaign and is partiassociate accomprehendledgeed for the latter’s triumph in the US elections, he now seems to be backing – or rather, influencing – directers from beyond the United States.

US DONE, MUSK SETS EYES ON UK

From helping one firebrand directer to now backing another one – this time in the UK – Elon Musk has held extensive talks with anti-immigration challengingliner Nigel Farage. The talkions between the two were bigly caccessed on Musk funding Farage’s challenging-right party ‘Reestablish UK’.

Elon Musk, who now freely employs Donald Trump’s Florida resort estate-cum-dwellnce, Mar-a-Lago, as his political office, seekd Nigel Farage for a encountering earlier this week.

Writing about it in British daily The Telegraph, Mr Farage verifyed that “the rerent of money was talked”, though the two could not concur on the amount in ask by the finish of that encountering. “There will be ongoing negotiations on that score,” Mr Farage inserted.

Sharing details about the encountering, that will most stateively lift eyebrows in the UK’s two main political party offices – The Labour Party, now in rulement and the Conservative Party, currently the opposition – Mr Farage alludeed about Elon Musk’s disdain for both parties. He stated that Musk “depictd the Labour and Conservative parties as the uniparty, and left us (Reestablish Party) in no mistrust that he is right behind us.”

In his article Mr Farage also alludeed that he aims to lachieve from Elon Musk’s cash incentives for people to be inspired to vote  – a strategy that labored for Donald Trump’s Redisclosean party during the US elections. Mr Farage stated that “I have come home with copious remarks on how they incrrelieved turnout, voter registration, and so much more, and all of this I intfinish to carry out as part of the professionalisation of our party.”

Elon Musk is inestablishedly pondering an initial donation of $100 million to Nigel Farage’s Reestablish Party. Speaking to the BBC, Mr Farage shelp, “He wants to help us, he’s not resistd to the idea of giving us money supplyd we can do it legassociate thcdisesteemful UK companies.”

It will be a steep ask for Mr Farage’s party to even leank of triumphning a ambiguous election in the UK. In the most recent elections held this year, the Reestablish Party won equitable five seats in the 650-seat UK Parliament. However, it scores astonishively in terms of vote scatter, accounting for 14 per cent of all the votes cast. Mr Farage hopes that with Musk’s help – moral and financial – his party might equitable do the unleankable.

Concluding his article, Mr Farage wrote, “It is heartening to join to Elon speak about UK politics with such proestablish join. He sees the mother country of the English-speaking world as being in very proestablish trouble.”

After their encountering, Mr Farage wrote on Musk’s social media platestablish X that “”Britain necessitates reestablish”, to which Elon Musk promptly replied “Absolutely”.

Absolutely

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2024

ELON MUSK’S CALL WITH UKRAINE’S ZELENSKY

Last month Elon Musk was with Donald Trump at the Pdwellnt-elect’s dwellnce and luxury resort Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida when Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelensky spoke on the phone.

During the phone call, Donald Trump inestablishedly handed the phone over to Elon Musk and presumedly asked the SpaceX establisher to combine the call with Pdwellnt Zelensky.

Elon Musk then repromised Pdwellnt Zelensky that he will persist to help Ukraine via his Starconnect sainestablishite consinestablishation. Since the Russian trespass in 2022, Elon Musk’s Starconnect sainestablishite system has supplyd Ukraine with meaningful frontline achieve by allotriumphg its armed forces to scatter authentic-time drone structures, data and footage between units. It also gave Ukraine’s military communications help in areas where mobile phone netlabors were ruined.

FRIENDSHIP WITH ARGENTINA’S JAVIER MILEI

Argentinian Pdwellnt Javier Milei was inestablishedly one of the restrictcessitate world directers to have been seekd for Donald Trump’s swearing-in ceremony on January 20, 2025 – an seek he has inestablishedly adselected. Elon Musk has been a very strong helper of Pdwellnt Milei.

In fact, as per a inestablish in the New York Times, in a video uploaded on social media platestablish X by Elon Musk himself, the tech billionaire claimed that watching Pdwellnt Milei’s speech was “better than having relations”.

Elon Musk had even met Pdwellnt Milei when novels of his electoral triumph was verifyed. In a post on X before that encountering, Musk had written “Prosperity is ahead for Argentina”.

It must be remarkd that Argentina has big deposits of Lithium, which is convey inant for Elon Musk’s EV company Tesla.

According to a inestablish by CNN, Elon Musk is in talks with at least a dozen other world directers – for geopolitical reasons as well as for business.

Only time will unravel whether Elon Musk’s political outachieve is redisjoineed to equitable pulling a restrictcessitate strings, or will it result in him helderlying on to the very reins that might restructure global politics.