{"id":1377397,"date":"2022-03-15T08:18:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1377397"},"modified":"2022-03-15T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:23:06","slug":"elon-musk-challenges-putin-to-single-combat-with-ukraine-as-the-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-challenges-putin-to-single-combat-with-ukraine-as-the-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Challenges Putin to Single Combat \u2013 With Ukraine as the Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-challenges-putin-to-single-combat-with-ukraine-as-the-prize%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1377397&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>While billionaire Elon Musk wasn\u2019t born in the Old West or Medieval Europe, the renaissance man apparently had those times and places in mind when he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10610887\/I-challenge-Vladimir-Putin-single-combat-Elon-Musk-tweets-wants-fight-strongman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">challenged Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin to single combat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The spoils in this case? Not a princess being held hostage or honor, but the winner deciding on the fate of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s Aaron Burr moment was followed up with other comments regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine and quotes from the Shakespearian play \u201cMacbeth.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">I hereby challenge<br \/>\u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440 \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d <br \/>to single combat<\/p>\n<p>Stakes are \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0430<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1503327421839417344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/video-lindsey-graham-criticizes-deplorable-and-dishonorable-biden-for-folding-like-a-cheap-suit\/?utm_source=home-featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video: Lindsey Graham Criticizes \u2018Deplorable\u2019 and \u2018Dishonorable\u2019 Biden For \u2018Folding Like A Cheap Suit\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Poking The Russian Bear?<\/h3>\n<p>After issuing the challenge, Musk then tagged the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10610887\/I-challenge-Vladimir-Putin-single-combat-Elon-Musk-tweets-wants-fight-strongman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official Twitter account of the Kremlin<\/a> to ask if Putin would agree to the match up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ru\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0412\u044b \u0441\u043e\u0433\u043b\u0430\u0441\u043d\u044b \u043d\u0430 \u044d\u0442\u043e\u0442 \u0431\u043e\u0439? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KremlinRussia_E?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KremlinRussia_E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1503338552016482308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>While very few would argue that, in order to amass the amount of wealth that Musk has one must be willing to take a few risks, if he were born at any earlier period the challenge might be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>And his opponent is a blackbelt in Judo, who used to run the KGB.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fight may not be an easy one for Musk.<\/p>\n<p>To cap it off, Musk quoted from \u2018Macbeth\u2019 a line from when the three witches warn of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nosweatshakespeare.com\/quotes\/famous\/something-wicked-this-way-comes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macbeth\u2019s arrival and descent<\/a> into monsterdom and infamy: \u2018By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">By the pricking of my thumbs \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1503322032477552641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/tulsi-gabbard-demands-mitt-romney-resign-after-he-accuses-her-of-treason\/?utm_source=home-headline-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tulsi Gabbard Demands Mitt Romney Resign After He Accuses Her Of \u2018Treason\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Some Recent Musk Greatest Hits<\/h3>\n<p>For all of his eccentric quirks, Elon Musk is in many instances at least intellectually honest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month he implored American leaders to ramp up oil production \u2013 putting his adopted country ahead of his electric car company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hate to say it, but we need to increase oil &#038; gas output immediately. <\/p>\n<p>Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1499907549746937860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk was <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/electric-car-ceo-elon-musk-urges-biden-to-increase-oil-and-gas-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">honest enough to realize that currently, gas<\/a> and oil power civilization.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Increased oil &#038; gas production in the short term is critical or people around the world will be placed under great duress. <\/p>\n<p>This is not a question of money, it is a question of having enough energy to power civilization.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1500217826119925762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk took to Twitter to correct President Joe Biden for not mentioning Tesla <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/elon-musk-fact-checks-biden-live-during-state-of-the-union-address-after-tesla-was-snubbed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when speaking about electric cars<\/a> during the State of the Union speech earlier this month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tesla has created over 50,000 US jobs building electric vehicles &#038; is investing more than double GM + Ford combined<\/p>\n[fyi to person controlling this twitter]\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1498858611241635843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/elon-musk-slams-never-trumper-as-hypocritical-megadouche-over-hitler-comparisons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk tweeted a comparison<\/a> of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his treatment of protesters in the Freedom Convoy to something Hitler might have done, former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum responded to Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Frum having apparently forgotten that he frequently compared Donald Trump to Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>Musk called out Frum for his massive hypocrisy:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">Hypocritical megadouche!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1495524999263776768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Elon Musk might be long on intellectual honesty and common sense. But it remains to be seen who would come out the winner in a duel with Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Though knowing Musk, he may very well have some sort of secret technology that could keep him safe in a clash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While billionaire Elon Musk wasn\u2019t born in the Old West or Medieval Europe, the renaissance man apparently had those times and places in mind when he\u00a0challenged Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}