Musk doubles down on Putin fight challenge

By Updates

“Thank you for the offer, but such excellent training would give me too much of an advantage,” he said. “If he is afraid to fight, I will agree to use only my left hand and I am not even left-handed.” He signed it “Elona,” and even changed his Twitter handle to reflect the new name.

Putin famously doesn’t follow any social media himself, and the Kremlin has not dignified Musk’s challenge with an official response. That hasn’t stopped Kadyrov, or the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin before him, to engage with the SpaceX magnate. Rogozin tweeted at Musk on Monday, in Russian, quoting verses by the famous poet Alexander Pushkin about a clever peasant outwitting a demon.

“I see you are a tough negotiator! Ok, you can have 10% more pay per view money,” Musk shot back, accompanied by a picture of Putin riding a bear and himself wielding a flamethrower, captioned “Choose your fighter.”

“He can even bring his bear,” Musk added, along with a quote – again, in Russian – from “Idiot” by Fyodor Dostoevsky.