This interview with the always-brilliant Fiona Hill is worth a read, but the bottom line up front:

Elon Musk is transmitting a message for Putin.

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✌🌻Crooked Donald Angry Staffer 🌻 Time, though, to re-up a POLL ON SEVASTOPOL because Putin, through his messenger-boy, is confirming the premise of the poll — that he can't survive in the Kremlin viper nest if he loses Sevastopol/Crimea twitter.com/craigaroo/stat…