Chechen warlord Kadyrov accuses Elon Musk of ‘remotely disabling’ his Cybertruck | CNN Business
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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.

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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.

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    82·
    2 months ago

    Chechen warlord

    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.

        • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
          7·
          2 months ago

          I definitely wouldn’t, but this country almost never does something I’d want…

          amerikkka sadness

          Are you Chechen? Neat, I love how this site has people from all over the world. What does the average Chechen think of Kadyrov? Western press always covers him basically the same way they do with Hezbollah as “scary evil foreign warlord,” but he seems more like the Chechen equivalent of Erik Prince to me. His forces are under RF’s official chain of command in the MoD, aren’t they? He always gets the same kind of coverage they’d give Prigozhin prior to the weird coup attempt/protest thing and his “plane accident.”

          prigo-pog

          • Seasonal_Peace [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            10·
            2 months ago

            Yes, I’m Chechen, though I don’t live in Chechnya, but all my family does.

            Kadyrov isn’t very popular among many of us. He’s often seen as a bit of a fool. His father, Akhmad Kadyrov, initially supported Chechen independence, but when the tide turned and chaos ensued due to sabotage by the Islamists, he switched sides and aligned with Russia to become the new ruler of Chechnya. Everything Ramzan has today, he owes to his father.

            Ramzan himself is viewed as a dumb brute, someone who holds power but acts more like a ridiculous king. His rule is also very misogynistic and extremely homophobic; it’s not surprising that he is homophobic given the prevailing attitudes in Chechen society and much of the Caucasus. The stories about the murder of gay Chechens are sadly true. He’s not a warlord because his army is part of the Russian forces and embedded within the Russian military structure.

            That said, I am happy that things are peaceful now. The Islamist militants have been dealt with, and Chechens live much better today than in the 90s and 2000s, when there was widespread violence, kidnapping, and extreme poverty.

            • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
              4·
              2 months ago

              Interesting, thanks for the reply. As an American, I can’t help but think of what you wrote about the Kadyrovs as sort of like a parallel to HW and W Bush here. (Well, not the independence movement part, but a dumb brute son of a former ruler owing everything to his last name.)

              I feel like if the average American had a better understanding of the horrible austerity and neoliberalization of the Russian economy and their effects on the quality of life for the average person in the Russian Federation and former USSR under Yeltsin, they’d understand why Russia is the way it is now a lot better. I don’t think that’d make US government policy towards Russia any better, but it might temper some of the ridiculous McCarthy-ish Russiagate conspiratorial paranoia of American liberals. The recent would-be golf course Trump shooter was made completely unhinged by that kind of media fixation and tried to start a foreign legion group to get Afghans to fight for Ukraine and travelled there to hang out in Kyiv and was so vehemently anti-Russia that he was a cheerleader for the Azov Battalion. jesus-christ

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      2 months ago

      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.

      -–

      Edit

      Maybe we should call it the Cybernical?

    • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      48·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      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?

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        15·
        2 months ago

        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.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    50·
    2 months ago

    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.

    i-cant