WSJ: Musk Set to Receive Top-Secret Briefing on U.S. War Plans for China

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/musk-to-receive-top-secret-briefing-on-u-s-war-plans-for-china-922eafdf?mod=mhp

Elon Musk is scheduled to receive a briefing Friday on the U.S. military’s top-secret war plans for China, according to two U.S. officials, giving the wealthy businessman and presidential adviser insight into one of the Pentagon’s most closely guarded operational blueprints

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twistypencil@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Does he have clearance?

baldingpudenda@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y (1 reply)

No, but the president, elon's subordinate, can clear anyone he wants.

oxysis@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

You mean Musk’s boy toy?

foggy@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Oh, good. Let's just give him the nuclear codes while we're at it.

deadkennedy@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y

it’s obvious (to me) that he’s positioned himself to assume control upon Krasnov’s passing.

so yeah.

kn0wmad1c@programming.dev · 20 pts · 1y

SpaceX and xAI, two of Musk's other companies, appear to have been receiving a lot of funding from Chinese backers on the secondary markets. It's part of the reason Elon started spewing the "Taiwan is a part of China" nonsense.

Bro could not be more conflicted in interest here.

Magister@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

War plan for China? You mean USA helping China invading Taiwan?

henfredemars@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 1y

He stands to make good money selling those secrets. Learned from the best.