{{quotebox-float|"Ukraine is now going too far and inviting strategic defeat...Trying to retake [[Crimea]] will cause massive death, probably fail and risk [[nuclear war]]...This would be terrible for Ukraine and [[Earth]]...How am I in this [[war]]?...Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars...It was so people can watch [[Netflix]] and chill and get online for [[school]] and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes”.<ref>https://archive.ph/YZ0Rz</ref>}}
{{quotebox-float|"Ukraine is now going too far and inviting strategic defeat...Trying to retake [[Crimea]] will cause massive death, probably fail and risk [[nuclear war]]...This would be terrible for Ukraine and [[Earth]]...How am I in this [[war]]?...Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars...It was so people can watch [[Netflix]] and chill and get online for [[school]] and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes”.<ref>https://archive.ph/YZ0Rz</ref>}}
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Musk observed, "The longer this goes on, the better Russia will do...Citizens of [[Western civilization|Western countries]] are being told that Ukraine is winning when in fact it is losing...We are told that there is no opportunity to make [[peace]] when in fact we have rejected multiple opportunities for a negotiated settlement...When the [[war]] is finally lost, when the whole country lays in smoldering ruins on a funeral pyre of their own making, the liars will say: 'Well we tried”.<ref>https://alethonews.com/2024/02/18/musk-agrees-ukraine-conflict-is-war-of-lies/</ref>
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Musk tweeted in agreement as "accurate" a posting on X by David Sachs stating, "The longer this goes on, the better Russia will do...Citizens of [[Western civilization|Western countries]] are being told that Ukraine is winning when in fact it is losing...We are told that there is no opportunity to make [[peace]] when in fact we have rejected multiple opportunities for a negotiated settlement...When the [[war]] is finally lost, when the whole country lays in smoldering ruins on a funeral pyre of their own making, the liars will say: 'Well we tried”.<ref>https://alethonews.com/2024/02/18/musk-agrees-ukraine-conflict-is-war-of-lies/</ref>