“The Musk’s words are the result of an honest thought regarding a topic, he did not want to undermine the sovereignty of our country nor harm the dynamics. I think it is right to remember that he spoke as a private citizen, as an entrepreneur and not as a figure of an administration that will take office in a few months.” Thus Elon Musk’s representative in Italy, Andrea Stroppa, returns to Sky Tg24 on the CEO’s words of He had problems with the Biden administration for speaking his mind. If anyone thinks they can intimidate him, they haven’t understood who he is.”
“It’s true that In the past, Mattarella spoke about digital oligarchs and someone read a reference to Musk. In 2023 a terrible flood hit Emilia Romagna and Musk, despite having no contact with the Italian government because he didn’t yet know Meloni, at 6 in the American morning sent off a team of Starlink experts, an initiative also implemented when the war broke out in Ukraine . If there had been no Starlink, the Russians had first disabled Ukrainian communications” Stroppa then underlined. As for the functioning of Starlink and its powers, “Starlink is considered a strategic asset of the American government in the USA which is activated and deactivated in agreement with the US administration, Musk can’t turn it off himselfwhen it was deactivated in Ukraine it was a decision of the American government. Anyone who doesn’t know how Starlink works is talking nonsense.”
And speaking ofinvestigation concerning him on charges of complicity in corruptionStroppa comments: “Justice must take its course, I I’m under investigation and it’s also an opportunity to defend myselfthe magistrate must always be respected and we must wait for the facts to be ascertained. The investigation is welcome, it is heavy on a personal level but it is right, this is how it works in a democratic country.”
In an interview with Agoraon Rai3 Stroppa claims that calling him the South African entrepreneur’s “right-hand man” is “exaggerated”. And he added: “Musk is an entrepreneur who has seen a decline in Western society, a much more pronounced decline in Europe but also present in the United States and has decided to contribute to politics by getting involved.” According to Stroppa “Musk is not a right-wing man, it is difficult to put him in a political scheme but it can be said that as an entrepreneur he is very interested in the issues of civil rights and safety at work”. When asked what the entrepreneur’s weak point might be, he replies: “His too much transparency in what he thinks and says.”
