Elon Musk boasts he challenged Putin to 'one on one physical combat' and makes Starlink threat

[highplainsdem]

Source: Irish Star

Elon Musk has boasted about challenged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to a "one on one" combat amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.

The challenge was put forward by the Tesla owner in 2022 when he tweeted: "I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to single combat. Stakes are Ukraine,". Unsurprisingly, Putin did not directly respond.

Now three years on, Musk took to X and brought the one on one challenge back to light as he demanded peace over a "stalemate" in Ukraine and said his Starlink system is the "backbone" of Zelenskyy's army.

He penned: "I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat over Ukraine and my Starlink system is the backbone of the Ukrainian army. Their entire front line would collapse if I turned it off."

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Read more: https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/elon-musk-boasts-challenged-putin-34824499

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See reply 7 for the response to the Starlink threat from Poland's Minister of Foreign Affairs.

As for the one-on-one-physical-combat nonsense...

Drug-addled Musk is clearly still impressed by that insane challenge, though no one else in the world was.

Marshmallow Man, with his ketamine brain, should be pried away from Ukraine and European policy and the US government asap.

[multigraincracker]

1. Isn't Putin Black Belt Judo player. When it comes to combat never assume anything.

[highplainsdem]

11. He had an honorary black belt in taekwondo, which was revoked after he invaded Ukraine:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vladimir-putin-stripped-taekwondo-black-belt-ukraine-invasion/

[multigraincracker]

14. Thanks. Go ahead and take him on.

[highplainsdem]

28. He also lost his judo title. See reply 26. Sorry about searching too little before posting the reply above.

[orangecrush]

25. His Judo rank was real

IIRC.

[highplainsdem]

26. You and multigraincracker are right. I should've done more checking, instead of going with what

popped up first when I searched for Putin and black belt.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/international-judo-federation-strips-titles-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-invasion/

[Grokenstein]

18. All I know about that is a brief moment from Mo' Sochi Mo' Problems

in which we see him grab someone and that person flips himself because he doesn't want to be pushed out a window.

[Gore1FL]

2. Wasn't he going to fight Zuckerberg in a cage match?

I wish someone would take him up on it.

[highplainsdem]

4. He said he was. More of his BS.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGoKIDcXMAAVGA5?format=jpg&name=900x900

Mark Zuckerberg says Elon Musk “isn’t serious” about a cage fight and “it’s time to move on” from their proposed showdown, the details of which were never nailed down.

“Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead,” the Meta chief executive wrote on social platform Threads Sunday.

“If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I’m going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.”

Zuckerberg, 39, had previously proposed August 26 for the fight, but said Musk, 52, hadn’t confirmed.

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[GiqueCee]

9. That's exactly what I was going to point out...

... I despise Putin, but I would love to see him pound Musk into a puddle of blood and bone.

[Shermann]

3. He better hope the Russians don't crack the code for taking out Starlink

Musk has kindly documented it as being a valid military target, and being privately owned the Russians wouldn't think twice about attacking it. But it is difficult to take out.

[luvallpeeps]

5. His greatest trick

Is lying in the sun, yet getting whiter.

[travelingthrulife]

6. Doesn't he know he's a grown man now?

Sick, sick, sick people.

[highplainsdem]

7. Response to Musk's Starlink threat from Poland's Minister of Foreign Affairs:

Link to tweet

Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺
@sikorskiradek

Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.

6:40 AM · Mar 9, 2025

[mwooldri]

10. the good news is that there are other suppliers.

Eutelsat, which owns OneWeb, is in talks with the EU to add satellite coverage for Ukraine.

We don't hear of OneWeb because unlike Starlink it's not marketed direct to end consumers. But they have geostationary satellites in addition to low Earth orbit satellites...

Alternatives are now becoming available, and for Ukraine the solution is European.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/eutelsat-shares-more-than-triple-value-investors-bet-oneweb-satellites-2025-03-04/

[Emrys]

20. OneWeb is already available in Ukraine

Veon, Ukraine's largest mobile network, signed a deal with OneWeb in 2023, and satellite services are provided by its Kyivstar arm.

What OneWeb is now aiming to do is roll out thousands of consoles to the Ukrainian market so that it can be more widely used by the military.

[OAITW r.2.0]

30. A private Ukrainian internet network?

Just trying to understand.

[Emrys]

32. No.

It's like the setup between T-Mobile and Starlink: https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/satellite-phone-service

[Autumn]

8. Quit your posturing and go have a nice cuppa "tea" with your buddy Putin. Share one with Trump too.

[Prairie Gates]

12. Putin has tortured people in sub-basements and killed by edged weapon

I would absolutely take him in this fight over this pasty, defective uber-nerd.

[Martin68]

13. Musk is batshit stoned on ketamine.

[republianmushroom]

15. The muskrat lies like the convicted felon president.

[Old Testament Libera]

16. Cage match!

I would love to see it.

Cage match, naked, with axes

[hamsterjill]

17. I would pay money.

As long as the rules where until one of them was dead. I doubt it would last very long.

[mentalsolstice]

19. I would pay money to unsee this picture!

Not enough brain bleach….. I had to show it to my SO, if I suffer he has to suffer alongside me.

[City Lights]

21. Maybe he'll fall out of a tenth-story window...nt

[iemanja]

22. Oh, please let Putin do it.

And at the very least find an open window.

[Carlitos Brigante]

23. For the love of everything sachred! Please put a warning before posting photos of that Apartheid marshmallow!! nt

[orangecrush]

24. Putin would put his foot so far up Musk's ass

He could make Musk's lips move by wiggling his toes.

[Faux pas]

27. Oh mr pastey

you look so scary 😨😳

[sheshe2]

29. That picture should have a trigger warning!

[sakabatou]

31. We all know he's a coward

[Attilatheblond]

33. 1st off, who does he think he is, acting like a soverign nation is a poker chip

2nd, how much fat does he have in that skull?
Lastly, somebody with that much money refusing to get the mental health care he so obviously needs should be ignored altogether, not given the keys to what he thinks is a purchased kindgom.

Not generally one to lean into violence, but as a realist, it seems likely one of his kids will take him out at some point. Soon I hope