Musk mocks Zelensky over aid demands

馬斯克嘲笑澤連斯基的援助要求

Ukraine was previously angered by the billionaire’s refusal to allow the use of Starlix for a planned attack on Crimea

烏克蘭此前對這位億萬富翁拒絕允許烏克蘭使用星鏈計劃攻擊克里米亞感到憤怒

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ridiculed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky over his demands for more financial support from the US and its allies amid the conflict with Russia.
Posting on his X (formerly Twitter) social media platform on Sunday, Musk shared the popular ‘stressed guy’ meme with Zelensky’s face photoshopped onto it and with a caption reading: “When it’s been five minutes and you haven’t asked for a billion dollars in aid.”

SpaceX和特斯拉首席執(zhí)行官埃隆·馬斯克嘲笑烏克蘭總統(tǒng)弗拉基米爾·澤連斯基在與俄羅斯的沖突中要求美國及其盟友提供更多財政支持。
周日,馬斯克在他的社交媒體平臺X(以前的推特)上分享了流行的“壓力男孩”表情包,并將澤連斯基的臉ps在上面,并配文說:“五分鐘過去了,你還沒張口要10億美元的援助。”


The post had already gained more than 25 million views and over 350,000 likes at the time of writing.
The ‘stressed guy’ meme features an image of a male student whose neck and forehead are bulging with veins while he sits beside a girl in a classroom. The picture is commonly shared for humorous descxtions of frustrating or uncomfortable situations.

在撰寫本文時,這篇帖子已經(jīng)獲得了超過2500萬的瀏覽量和超過35萬個贊。
“壓力男孩”的表情包是這樣的:教室里,一名男生坐在一名女生旁邊,他的脖子和前額都憋得青筋暴起。這張照片通常被用來幽默地描述令人沮喪或不舒服的情況。


Musk’s post comes after Zelensky attempted to drum up more support from the US during a visit to Washington in September. According to US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Ukrainian president told him that “if we don’t get the aid, we will lose the war.”
The administration of US President Joe Biden has provided Kiev with around $46 billion since the beginning of the conflict with Russia in February 2022. However, no funding for Ukraine was included in the last-minute budget deal struck by Congress late on Saturday which allowed the US to avoid a federal government shutdown.

今年9月,澤連斯基訪問華盛頓期間,試圖從美國獲得更多支持。據(jù)美國參議院多數(shù)黨領(lǐng)袖查克·舒默稱,烏克蘭總統(tǒng)告訴他,“如果我們得不到援助,我們將輸?shù)暨@場戰(zhàn)爭?!?br /> 自2022年2月與俄羅斯的沖突開始以來,美國總統(tǒng)喬·拜登政府已向基輔提供了約460億美元。然而,周六晚些時候,美國國會在最后一刻達(dá)成的預(yù)算協(xié)議中沒有包括為烏克蘭提供資金的內(nèi)容,該協(xié)議使美國得以避免聯(lián)邦政府關(guān)閉。

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was among the Republicans to oppose the Biden administration’s request to allocate $6 billion more to Ukraine, said that the priority must be protecting America’s borders.

美國眾議院議長凱文·麥卡錫是反對拜登政府要求向烏克蘭再撥款60億美元的共和黨人之一,他說首要任務(wù)必須是保護(hù)美國的邊界。

The Zelensky government considered Musk among its backers early in the conflict with Russia, when SpaceX donated $80 million worth of Starlix satellite internet terminals to Ukraine. Kiev’s forces have relied heavily on the system for communications.

澤連斯基政府在與俄羅斯的沖突初期將馬斯克視為其支持者之一,當(dāng)時SpaceX向烏克蘭捐贈了價值8000萬美元的星鏈衛(wèi)星互聯(lián)網(wǎng)終端?;o部隊嚴(yán)重依賴該通訊系統(tǒng)。

However, the billionaire was involved in a spat with Ukrainian officials and social media users last October after he proposed a peace plan to settle the conflict. Musk suggested that Russia should “redo elections of annexed regions under UN supervision,” while Ukraine would commit to neutrality and drop its claim to Crimea. Four former Ukrainian regions voted to join Russia a year ago, while Crimea held a similar referendum in 2014 after a Western-backed coup in Kiev.

然而,去年10月,這位億萬富翁提出了一項解決沖突的和平計劃后,與烏克蘭官員和社交媒體用戶發(fā)生了口角。馬斯克建議,俄羅斯應(yīng)該“在聯(lián)合國監(jiān)督下重新舉行被吞并地區(qū)的選舉”,而烏克蘭則應(yīng)該承諾保持中立,放棄對克里米亞的主權(quán)要求。一年前,四個前烏克蘭地區(qū)投票加入俄羅斯,2014年,在西方支持的基輔政變后,克里米亞舉行了類似的公投。

Zelensky reacted to the idea by launching a social media poll, asking followers “which Elon Musk” they “l(fā)ike more” – the one “who supports Ukraine” or the one “who supports Russia.” Kiev’s then ambassador to Germany, Andrey Melnik, went further by telling the US billionaire to “f**k off.” A few days after the row, the Ukrainian military reportedly began experiencing problems with Starlix services.

對此,澤連斯基發(fā)起了一項社交媒體民意調(diào)查,詢問粉絲“他們更喜歡”哪個埃隆·馬斯克——“支持烏克蘭的”還是“支持俄羅斯的”。當(dāng)時的基輔駐德國大使安德烈·梅爾尼克甚至稱讓這位美國億萬富翁“滾蛋”。爭吵幾天后,據(jù)報道烏克蘭軍方開始遇到星鏈服務(wù)的問題。

Musk’s biography by historian Walter Isaacson, which came out in September, described an indecent last autumn in which the billionaire allegedly told his engineers to shut down satellite internet coverage in Crimea amid an attempted Ukrainian drone assault on the Russia. According to Isaacson, the tech entrepreneur concluded that “allowing the use of Starlix for the attack… could be a disaster for the world.”

歷史學(xué)家沃爾特·艾薩克森于9月出版的馬斯克傳記描述了去年秋天的一段不雅之事,據(jù)稱這位億萬富翁告訴他的工程師關(guān)閉克里米亞的衛(wèi)星互聯(lián)網(wǎng)覆蓋,當(dāng)時烏克蘭試圖用無人機(jī)襲擊俄羅斯。根據(jù)艾薩克森的說法,這位科技企業(yè)家的結(jié)論是,“允許使用星鏈進(jìn)行攻擊……對世界來說可能是一場災(zāi)難?!?/b>

Ukrainian presidential aide Mikhail Podoliak claimed that Musk was “committing evil and encouraging evil” with his decision, which he said was the result of “a cocktail of ignorance and big ego.”

烏克蘭總統(tǒng)助理米哈伊爾·波多利亞克聲稱,馬斯克的決定是“罪惡的和鼓勵邪惡的”,他說這是“無知和自大”的結(jié)果。