Elon Musk attends the VivaTech conference in Paris
Elon Musk at the VivaTech conference in Paris
  • Elon Musk defended his decision to block a Ukrainian attack that could have decimated Russia's navy.
  • Per a new biography, he refused Ukraine use of his Starlink network to make the attack in 2022.
  • Musk appears to believe that by blocking the attack he prevented a nuclear war.

Elon Musk spent Thursday and Friday scrambling to justify his decision to thwart a major Ukrainian attack on Russia's navy by denying it access to Starlink internet.

Musk argued repeatedly that he had avoided a nuclear war by thwarting the attack, believing that would have been Russia's response had it gone ahead.