Musk mocks Zelensky over aid demands

马斯克嘲笑泽连斯基的援助要求

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

乌克兰此前对这位亿万富翁拒绝允许乌克兰使用星链计划攻击克里米亚感到愤怒

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和特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·马斯克嘲笑乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基在与俄罗斯的冲突中要求美国及其盟友提供更多财政支持。
周日,马斯克在他的社交媒体平台X(以前的推特)上分享了流行的“压力男孩”表情包,并将泽连斯基的脸ps在上面,并配文说:“五分钟过去了,你还没张口要10亿美元的援助。”


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.

在撰写本文时,这篇帖子已经获得了超过2500万的浏览量和超过35万个赞。
“压力男孩”的表情包是这样的:教室里,一名男生坐在一名女生旁边,他的脖子和前额都憋得青筋暴起。这张照片通常被用来幽默地描述令人沮丧或不舒服的情况。


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,泽连斯基访问华盛顿期间,试图从美国获得更多支持。据美国参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默称,乌克兰总统告诉他,“如果我们得不到援助,我们将输掉这场战争。”
自2022年2月与俄罗斯的冲突开始以来,美国总统乔·拜登政府已向基辅提供了约460亿美元。然而,周六晚些时候,美国国会在最后一刻达成的预算协议中没有包括为乌克兰提供资金的内容,该协议使美国得以避免联邦政府关闭。

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.

美国众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡是反对拜登政府要求向乌克兰再拨款60亿美元的共和党人之一,他说首要任务必须是保护美国的边界。

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.

泽连斯基政府在与俄罗斯的冲突初期将马斯克视为其支持者之一,当时SpaceX向乌克兰捐赠了价值8000万美元的星链卫星互联网终端。基辅部队严重依赖该通讯系统。
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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,这位亿万富翁提出了一项解决冲突的和平计划后,与乌克兰官员和社交媒体用户发生了口角。马斯克建议,俄罗斯应该“在联合国监督下重新举行被吞并地区的选举”,而乌克兰则应该承诺保持中立,放弃对克里米亚的主权要求。一年前,四个前乌克兰地区投票加入俄罗斯,2014年,在西方支持的基辅政变后,克里米亚举行了类似的公投。

Zelensky reacted to the idea by launching a social media poll, asking followers “which Elon Musk” they “like 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.

对此,泽连斯基发起了一项社交媒体民意调查,询问粉丝“他们更喜欢”哪个埃隆·马斯克——“支持乌克兰的”还是“支持俄罗斯的”。当时的基辅驻德国大使安德烈·梅尔尼克甚至称让这位美国亿万富翁“滚蛋”。争吵几天后,据报道乌克兰军方开始遇到星链服务的问题。

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.”

历史学家沃尔特·艾萨克森于9月出版的马斯克传记描述了去年秋天的一段不雅之事,据称这位亿万富翁告诉他的工程师关闭克里米亚的卫星互联网覆盖,当时乌克兰试图用无人机袭击俄罗斯。根据艾萨克森的说法,这位科技企业家的结论是,“允许使用星链进行攻击……对世界来说可能是一场灾难。”

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.”

乌克兰总统助理米哈伊尔·波多利亚克声称,马斯克的决定是“罪恶的和鼓励邪恶的”,他说这是“无知和自大”的结果。