The Kremlin is deliberately escalating nuclear tensions to sow fear, and American entrepreneur and inventor Elon Musk has fallen for it - the Minister of Defence of Lithuania Arvydas Anusauskas expressed this opinion in a tweet.
After putin waved some flags about nuclear weapon, misinformation about alleged "nuclear weapon convoys" started circulating in Western media. This is not happening but "nuclear temperature" induced by Kremlin is paying dividends of fear. Elon Musk was the first to fall for it.
— Arvydas Anušauskas (@a_anusauskas) October 4, 2022
“After putin waved some flags about nuclear weapon, misinformation about alleged "nuclear weapon convoys" started circulating in Western media. This is not happening but "nuclear temperature" induced by Kremlin is paying dividends of fear. Elon Musk was the first to fall for it,” the minister wrote.
Yesterday, Musk decided to express his opinion on "peace in Ukraine" in a tweet, one of the points of which was that the occupied Crimea should be part of russia, as before "Khrushchev's mistake". In another post, the entrepreneur said that he considers nuclear war a possible, though unlikely, consequence of russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Nuclear hysteria is exactly what russian officials and propaganda are spreading, especially in the context of failures on the frontline in Ukraine. Nuclear threats have been made by russian deputies, members of the Security Council, and Putin himself.