Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has accused Tesla CEO Elon Musk of “remotely disabling” his Cybertruck, which had been sent to the frontline of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
What a time to be alive
Kadyrov claimed Thursday that the vehicle, which he said had been outfitted with a machine gun and was “performing well in combat,” had been shut down, adding Friday that he had sent two additional Tesla Cybertrucks to the frontline.
Look, not a Kadyrov fan by any stretch of the imagination, but look at how this headline is dripping with American exceptionalism. I would love to see US presidents referred to as "warlords" from now on.
Russia formally gets everything east of the Dnieper in the eventual ceasefire negotiation and Ukraine gets Chechnya as an exclave because Kadyrov posted cringe
Is there a clause in the sales contract that requires one to pronounce explicitly that they still love the car when they criticize/complain about it publicly, or is it just cult behavior from the Tesla fanbase?
If you disregard the rust, sharp corners, inability to use the bed, quality control x100 and disgusting CEO, the truck is really good at going zoomy tho
Maybe it's a silver lining if it doesn't work. If it does work - the enemy probably can easily hack something and figure out where he are. I hope the yahoo livestreams himself in battle.
"After we get over that hill we'll get to the battlefiel—" and that's it for the Cybertechnical and warlord too.
Lmao capitalism fans be like "In communism you wouldn't own anything" but here we are with a car sold by a peak capitalist and oops he can just take your property away without questions.
It's a funny way to describe him, because yeah he definitely has warlord vibes and he's probably a terrible person, but he is the elected prime minister of the Chechen republic and a colonel-general in the Russian military. Like he's got state-legitimacy, he's not Joseph Kony.
That said referring to the US presidents and various Governors as Warlords would be pretty cool and funny so I'll allow it.
wait what qualifies someone to be called a warlord? shouldn't every US president be called that? actually basically every "Western" leader in pretty much all of history should right?
Basically legitimacy and having army. Oxford definition is "a military commander, especially an aggressive regional commander with individual autonomy." Kadyrov technically would be a warlord from the Russian point of view, but he's the legal head of federated state and his army is legal too and do legal things, he also have relevant and real rank in RF forces.
If even simple pagers can have backdoor explosives, what makes you think the Cybertrucks sent abroad aren’t ridden with backdoors accessible to the DoD?
The Chechens would do well to be cautious about using Western equipments in case they blow up in their face.