The world's most dangerous billionaire or the savior of humanity? Elon Musk wants to fulfill a prophecy 25 years ago

20 January 2025 The planet is holding its breath. During the speech during the inauguration of Donald Trump's presidency Elon Musk, thanking the supporters of the president of the United States, performs a motion resembling the greeting of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and European fascists in the first half of the 20th century.

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Gest Elona Muska

There's thunder all over Musk. Popular journalist Roberto Saviano — known for his crusade against the mafia and late the right-wing Italian government — does not bite his tongue. ‘Let him be cursed“ He says.

Supporters of an eccentric businessman defend this gesture, justifying him that an entrepreneur-billionaire is "autistic". Musk himself in 2021 confesses in the Saturday Night Live program that he is diagnosed with Asperger syndrome"a illness of geniuses."

Persecution must have handled himself

And Musk's childhood isn't easy either. It is born on 28 June 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. As he grows up, his parent Maye works 5 jobs to support his family. Elon's father, Errol Musk, is simply a wealthy engineer from South Africa. Elon spends his early childhood with Brother Kimbal and sister Tosca in South Africa. His parents get divorced erstwhile he's 10.

Since his childhood Musk has shown interest in technology, including computers and programming. At the age of 12, he develops his own game entitled Blastar, which he sells for $500 (today it is over PLN 2,000). The low introvert is then persecuted by his peers. erstwhile Elon turns 15, trauma comes to an end, and he himself stands strong, he learns martial arts and wrestling to defend himself.

He's 17 erstwhile he moves to Canada against his parents' will. In this way, he avoids compulsory service in the South African military. He receives Canadian citizenship, and after moving a fewer years later besides American citizenship in 2002. “I came to North America due to the fact that I felt that it was a place where large things could be done in the field of technology,” he says in 2013.

California, Silicon Valley, large money

After moving to Canada 2 years ago, she studied Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and moved to the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. There, after 5 years, he graduated undergraduate in economics and physics. Elon wants a PhD in energy physics, so he goes to Stanford University. He resigns after just 2 days, due to the fact that he is consumed by a increasing California tech wave that allows him to make a fortune. The following examples:

• 1995 — Musk, his brother Kimbal and Greg Kouri founded the Global Link Information Network, later renamed Zip2. The company develops an online guide to the city with maps and tips, sold among others to newspapers. Compaq takes over Zip2 for $307 million (today it is over PLN 1.2 billion), and Musk earns PLN 22 million (about PLN 90 million) for 7 percent of shares.
• 1999 – Musk becomes co-founder of X.com, a company offering online financial services and email payments. Over 200,000 people then usage this online bank. After being merged with another net bank, Confinity's name is changed to PayPal after time and staff changes. In 2002, PayPal is taken over by eBay and Musk as the largest shareholder receives 176 million dollars (today it is around PLN 713 million). It is at this time that it says that the Internet, artificial intelligence, extraterrestrial life, diversification of energy sources and cognition of human genes are areas that will change human life beyond designation in the next decades.
• 2002 – Elon starts Space X, a space company that builds rocket engines, rockets and spacecraft, including reusable. As a millionaire then, he rapidly multiply his wealth, receiving contacts with NASA worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
• 2003 – The entrepreneur becomes 1 of Tesla's first shareholders to produce affordable, mass-selling electrical cars, battery products and solar roofs.
• 2015 SpaceX is successfully launching work on Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit to supply satellite net access.
• 2015 – Musk co-founds OpenAI, a company dealing with artificial intelligence (AI), whose aim was to make general artificial intelligence.
• 2016 Musk becomes a co-founder of Neuralink, a neurotechnology company, investing $100 million in it. The aim of the company is to integrate the human brain with artificial intelligence (AI) by creating devices embedded in the brain.
• 2017 Musk founded The Boring Company. The task of the company is to build tunnels and in the future specialized underground vehicles with a large number of passengers, which could travel at a velocity of about 240 km per hour, thus bypassing ground traffic in large cities.

Today, the value of his property is estimated at over $435 billion (more than PLN 1.7 trillion).

Business isn't enough.

Now it's time for politics. Elon Musk has a good reason to be good to the president. It is bound to the U.S. government by gigantic contracts through Tesla and SpaceX. Over the years, it has besides repeatedly clashed with national regulators, and Donald Trump promises the business community extremist taxation cuts and crucial withdrawal of government regulations.

— He does not immediately become a supporter of Donald Trump. Even about a year and a half ago, during Republican primaries, Musk suggested that Trump should truly end his political career and leave American politics. Initially, everything indicated that he supported Ron DeSantis due to the fact that he allowed him to launch a run on his platform,” explains Andrzej Kohut of the Center for east Studies, author of the popular "American" podcast, with which we spoke in January just after Donald Trump was sworn in as president of the United States.

“The American adds.

In fact, Elon Musk is 1 of Trump's biggest donors, passing almost 250 million dollars (more than PLN 1 billion). As a reward for loyalty, the president creates a peculiar Department of State Performance (DOGE), which is to be headed by Musk.

— For now, it's hard to tell what this department will be. It is known that Donald Trump in 1 of his first regulations established this department, reorganizing 1 of the existing US government agencies. It is not clear precisely what the function of Musk will yet be. Will he enter the administration on average terms as a national employee? It seems hard to imagine at all. Besides, there are lawsuits concerning this fresh department and its transparency. So here these problems will be a lot – Kohut estimates.

— So I think it will alternatively function as a kind of advisory body. I'm skeptical about the large budget cuts, due to the fact that it's never easy. In Washington, D.C., Musk will shortly find out that even behind tiny budget expenses, tiny from the position of a vast whole, there are various groups of influences, interests of individual politicians. And this is simply a entanglement that is very hard to cut, no substance what will or approach you have. It is not as simple as in any business organization that cares, as Musk did with Twitter, for example," our interviewer pointed out.

It's been a period and a half. Elon Musk and his “Government Performance Department (DOGE) ravage the American administration apparatus. According to the announcements, by the end of the DOGE operation on 4 July 2026 the cost cuts are expected to bring 2 trillion dollars of savings (nearly PLN 8 trillion, counting at the current exchange rate). By firing thousands of national officials so far, Muska's agency is mainly doing a show to delight Trump voters.

Multibillionaire actions lead to chaos in and around the administration. The White home claims that a billionaire is not liable for the Department of Government Efficiency, which has already released respective tens of thousands of people. In fact, however, Elon Musk, who was not elected in democratic elections, gathered so much power that he could violate the constitution.

These are the last fewer weeks, but politics are knocking on the door of the technology empire of Musk, however, before.

A fresh Part of War

Start of September 2023 Burza evokes a fragment of Elon Musk's biography by Walter Isaacson published in the diary The Washington Post before the book's release. Musk had in the first year of Russian war in Ukraine secretly ordered his engineers not to turn on the satellite communications network of his Starlink company close the Crimean coast to disrupt Kiev's sneaky attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Later, a billionaire explains on platform X that it was the Ukrainian authorities who requested the urgent launch of the Starlink network throughout the way to Sevastopol. "If I had agreed to their request, SpaceX would have made a clear contribution to a serious act of war and escalation of the conflict," he added.

This incidental is simply a turning point in knowing modern war. Here is simply a private entrepreneur with the ability to place figures on a war chessboard, and sometimes even tip the scales of triumph is 1 way, the another way. The Picanteria of this case adds information from the German paper "Die Welt" that at the time Ukrainians lose the top operational advantage due to the fact that Starlinki Muska besides support the Russian army.

9 March 2025. Musk recalls the power of the Starlink system. "I virtually threw Putin a challenge to physical combat 1 on 1 in the context of Ukraine, and my Starlink strategy is the backbone of the Ukrainian army. Their full front line would collapse if I turned it off," he writes on X.

"Starlinks for Ukraine are paid by the Polish Ministry of Digitization at around $50 million a year," says Minister of abroad Affairs Radosław Sikorski. "Abstracting from the ethics of threatening the victim of aggression, if SpaceX turns out to be an incredible supplier, we will be forced to look for another suppliers," he says.

Elon Musk does not owe Polish Minister. I posts a non-graduate commentary on Sikorski's post. "Be quiet, small man. You pay a tiny fraction of the cost. And there are no substitutes for Starlink," writes Musk.

The refusal of the Ukrainians of 2023 coincides with the acquisition of Twitter (businessman renames the platform to X) for an amount of 44 billion dollars (over 178 billion PLN). The papers disclosed in August 2024 by the US court shed light on shareholders and investors active in X Holdings Corp. Elona Muska, revealing who helped fund his acquisition of the platform. 1 of these companies is 8VC.

According to the “Deutsche Welle”, Denis Awen and Jack Moszkowicz — sons of Russian oligarchs Petra Avena and Wadi Moszkowicz appear on the Fund’s website. Although there is no indication that the sanctioned fathers have any financial ties to the 8VC, Denis and Jack's roles are subject to further scrutiny.

One of Musk's first decisions is to reconstruct everyone on X (formerly Twitter), including trolls and previously banned Donald Trump. At that time, the anti-Semites who were thrown out of it, specified as Kanye West. And the Russians. Russian state institutions are massively hateful again, but now they have blue stamps (a sign of quality, transparency and certainty that there is simply a real and proven individual on the another side), which means Musk is taking money from the Kremlin and in return gives Kremlin a platform to cultivate Putinian propaganda.

At the same time, Musk withdraws from participation in the voluntary Code of Good Practice as part of the European Alliance for Combating Disinformation, but under force from the EU agrees yet to comply with the fresh strict Community rules on combating misinformation, Russian propaganda and net crime.

The regulations imposed besides let us to realize why Musk is beginning to interfere with European affairs. It's a desire for extremist change, but besides a rematch.

Three goals Elon Musk. Europe on the target

Especially the most crucial allies in the United States. Billionaire insults the British Prime Minister, the outgoing head of the Canadian Government calls her "girl" and the German Chancellor Olaf Scholzu says he is "an incompetent fool". But from the beginning.

“Girl, you are no longer the politician of Canada, so it doesn’t substance what you say,” writes Musk on platform X in a commentary on the entry of then outgoing chief of government Justin Trudeau, whom he is replacing Mark Carney.

It duplicates Donald Trump's narrative. The president of the United States calls Trudeau "the governor" alternatively than "the prime minister" and treats Canada itself as a "51 state" in its narrative.

The North American continent, however, is not adequate for a multibillionaire. He besides points his attention towards Europe.

"Starmer was profoundly active in mass rapes in exchange for votes," writes Musk on platform X.

The head of the British Government accuses that as manager of the Crown Attorney's Office from 2008 to 13, he was “co-involved” in gang activities, liable for manipulating and seducing victims, mainly children and adolescents, for their sexual exploitation. According to Musek, the British Prime Minister should “be put in jail”. In Starmer's response, he accuses a billionaire of spreading disinformation.

Everything points to a broader strategy. According to “Financial Times” Trump’s advisor is looking for ways to overthrow the British government. He considers supporting the alternate political movement, besides probes who could be the face of the right side of the British political scene.

Billiard initially supports Nigel Farage's “father of brexit” but as he distances himself from Tommy Robinson's far right-wing policy, Musk does not go past it indifferently and demands Farage to resign from the improvement Partywhich, from that minute on, must face a wave of mass resignations.

The fresh ally of the technological mogul becomes Dominic Cummings, so far a grey eminence on Downing Street, an icon of the British anti-establishment, suspected of being behind Musk's attacks on Starmer's government on social media.

However, the biggest stir is the support given to the far right in Germany. On 9 January this year, he even interviews the head of AfD (Alternatives for Germany) Alice Weidel. There were many strong claims in her conversation with X. “Deutsche Welle” journalists checked whether they were real.

But it's not over. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls “an incompetent fool”, adding that "only AfD can save Germany".

There's fresh revelations coming up all day. On 2 March 2025, Elon Musk, a well-known entrepreneur and head of the State Performance Department (DOGE), stirs with his laconic entry on social media. On Platform X, he makes available a post by popular American political commentator, Gunther Eagleman, who claims that for the United States "it is time to leave NATO and the UN". Musk wrote only 2 words: “I agree”.

One of the reasons for Musk’s interference in European affairs may be due to the fact that he wants to get back at something that a billionaire most likely feels as a trapping and damaging his interests. And his pragmatism can't give it.

“The European Union has frequently pressed the Musk projects with various regulations. I think that the billionaire does not have any sympathy for this institution and would be happy to work to disintegrate the organization from within – explains Andrzej Kohut from the OSW.

Secondly, as the American states, "Elon Musk likes very twitter trolling". “ If he sees that something is widespread indignant and at the same time draws this kind of attention to his person, he is happy to proceed specified themes.

Thirdly, there is an expanding interest in politics.

– estimates the author of the "American" podcast.

On the another hand, the U.S.’s top rival in the fight for planet domination, which is China treating highly mildly. The reason is simple – the mediate State has long been a key marketplace for Tesla. Musk knows that a possible criticism of Xi Jinping could affect his business. So it does something completely other – for years it praises the Chinese infrastructure and high-speed rail strategy and the Chinese space program, compliments green energy policy and encourages its supporters to visit this country.

And now that we're at Tesla, it's worth mentioning that both Elon Musk and investors are counting on a close relation with the American president to be beneficial to billionaire companies. In fact, however, since 1 January 2025. the entrepreneur loses up to 1.3 million PLN (5 million PLN) per minuteand Tesla's stock price has been dropping rapidly since the beginning of the year. And that's not the end of trouble. Donald Trump is already in a hurry to aid him.

(Dangerous) visionary

Business at the level of the Musk is inextricably linked to the large politics and vice versa. According to Kohut Musk, “he is simply a man for whom making money was never crucial.”

- We hear you.

According to the author of the podcast “In American” Musk has always been a kind of “visionary who went into ventures that seemed impossible at first glance”. “ frequently with very good results, although the effects were frequently to be waited for, he points out, as examples of Tesla and Space X and The Boring Company. “ Nevertheless, Elon Musk believes in specified unconventional solutions, while earning immense sums of money from various projects,” he stresses.

— I feel that with his political commitment it may be a bit similar, i.e. Elon Musk simply engages in politics, due to the fact that it turns him on, due to the fact that he has a imagination of how America should change, due to the fact that he may see that this is the only way people will be able to become an interplanetary species at last, and he truly cares about it. To conquer Mars, you request political conquest first. Therefore, I do not see only simple business calculations in this, even though at the end of the day this courageous strategy pays him very much and brings him more profit than anyone expected," concludes Onetu.