Elon Musk has called for financial restrictions as the key to ending conflict between Ukraine and Russia ‘immediately’, designating these drastic measures as the ‘key to the puzzle’.

It has been over three years since Russia first invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and while the United States remained significant backers of the latter during the Biden administration, current US President Donald Trump has seemingly pushed back against this support.

In the few months after he has officially returned to office, President Trump has called Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy a ‘dictator’ that ‘should have never started’ the war against Russia.

President Zelenskyy and Ukraine have been heavily criticized by the Trump administration (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Republican commentators have criticized Zelenskyy’s outfit choices, and have become laser-focused on Ukraine’s ‘need’ for an election. Additionally, the White House has also pressured Ukraine to accept key mineral demands in exchange for support, alongside a $500 billion request that has now been dropped.

Elon Musk has also repeatedly weighed in on the apparent clash between Zelenskyy and Trump, branding the former ‘evil’ for pushing a ‘forever war’, yet the richest man in the world has now proposed a new idea that he claims will end the conflict ‘immediately’, as per the Daily Mail.

In response to Utah Senator Mike Lee’s demand that ‘not another penny’ should go to Ukraine, Musk suggested a new tactic:

“Place sanctions on the top 10 Ukrainian oligarchs, especially the ones with mansions in Monaco, and this will stop immediately. That is the key to the puzzle.”

This is similar to measures that were taken against various Russian oligarchs in response to Putin’s ordered invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as many were reported to have links to the President of Russia.

Musk then received criticism from some of his followers following this suggestion, with one remarking: “You got to stop pretending that Putin isn’t the aggressor. Ukraine is the victim. Knock it off with the nonsense. You seem focused on only criticizing Ukraine but not Putin for some reason.”

He then offered his own rebuttal, bizarrely claiming that he “challenged Putin to one on one physical combat over Ukraine,” and adding that Ukraine’s “entire front line would collapse” if he disabled the support of Starlink, which some have claimed to be ‘hostage diplomacy’.

“What I am sickened by is years of slaughter in a stalemate that Ukraine will inevitably lose,” Musk explained. “Anyone who really cares, really thinks and really understands wants the meat grinder to stop. PEACE NOW!!”

Replies to his post then indicated that it should be Ukraine, as a victim of Russia’s aggression, that should dictate the end of the conflict – ideally with the support of the United States.

“If you truly cared about peace, you wouldn’t be threatening to cut off Ukraine – you’d be demanding that Russia stops invading sovereign nations. Instead, you’re playing both sides while pretending to be a savior,” wrote one frustrated user.

Musk has also urged the US government to withdraw from NATO following Zelenskyy’s clash with Trump, indicating that he’s on board with the desire to withdraw America’s support from Ukraine in an ‘unprecedented’ move.

On his latest rant against the state of the USA, Elon Musk has spectacularly claimed there’s $500,000,000,000 worth of fraud in the Social Security system.

The world’s richest man has been tasked with cutting some $2 trillion from government spending, and while he originally admitted he didn’t think it could be done, that hasn’t stopped him from gutting whole departments.

Musk being deep in the trenches of the White House has caused plenty of controversy, and as well as Tesla stocks crashing, he’s lost a jaw-dropping $29 billion in a single day.

Still, Musk told Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow that he’s going to continue doing what he’s doing.

There are worries about Musk putting Social Security in his crosshairs (OLIVER CONTRERAS / Contributor / Getty)

In an all-encompassing interview, Musk suggested that a ‘coordinated’ cyberattack against X came from Ukraine, spoke out about reports of a gun being fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon, and then fired his own shots at the entire Social Security system.

In one of the biggest takeaways, there are concerns that Musk is now taking his sharpened scissors to Medicare and Social Security. It comes as the Trump administration wants to make a $4.7 trillion tax cut.

Musk told Kudlow: “Most of the federal spending is in entitlements, so that’s the big one to eliminate. That’s the sort of half-trillion, maybe six, seven hundred billion a year.”

He went on to say: “That’s also a mechanism by which the Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants, by essentially paying them to come here, and then turning them into voters.”

Claiming that the Democrats are so upset by Musk’s work with the Department of Government Efficiency, he thinks turning off this ‘money magnet’ will cause them to leave.

Referring to this half a trillion, Kudlow said: “It’s a huge number.”

It’s important to note that Musk doesn’t point to any specific statistics, nor has it been clarified where he plucked the figure from.

Musk’s estimates are far higher than those put forward by the Social Security’s inspector general, who previously highlighted $71.8 billion in potential fraudulent payments from the 2015 to 2022 fiscal years. This works out at under 1% of total benefits paid during that time.

This isn’t the first time Musk has been questioned about his potential interference with Social Security.

He posted on X in February 2025 and said: “Having tens of millions of people marked in Social Security as ‘ALIVE’ when they are definitely dead is a HUGE problem.”

His claims were debunked by Lee Dudek, Social Security’s acting commissioner, who added: “The reported data are people in our records with a Social Security number who do not have a date of death associated with their record. These individuals are not necessarily receiving benefits.”

Sharing his concerns about what comes next, Rhode Island Democratic Representative Gabe Amo wrote: “Co-President Musk announces his desire to cut entitlements. To be very clear, the only things he could be talking about are Social Security and Medicare.”

While the POTUS has vowed to protect Social Security, Musk has already closed some offices and spectacularly referred to it as “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.”

As the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, it must sometimes feel like the weight of the world is on Elon Musk‘s shoulders.

The controversial tech billionaire has firmly got his feet under the table in Washington, and while he’s technically a ‘special government employee’ who can only work 130 days in the year, he’s taking his role at the DOGE very seriously.

Hoping to make $2 trillion in cuts to government spending, Musk and his team have wasted no time in gutting departments like USAID and showing thousands of government workers the door.

While Musk talks a big talk, there are continued concerns that the numbers aren’t adding up. Aside from some award accounting errors that led to the DOGE removing billions in savings from its supposed ‘wall of receipts’, there’s the inescapable fact that new Treasury data shows government spending has risen to a record-breaking $603 billion in February 2025.

Musk remains steadfast in his mission to trim the fat, but what if it isn’t his mission at all?

Musk is trying to cut $2 trillon from government spending (SAUL LOEB / Contributor / Getty)

Podcaster Joe Rogan has shared a clip from 2011, seemingly showing former President Barack Obama announcing his own plans to cut THE federal spend where possible.

In the resurfaced video, Obama says that getting rid of the deficit will require some ‘tough decisions’, adding that it will involve cutting back on the billions being spent in programs that some people love and care about.

The former President goes on to say it should be easy to get rid of the “pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn’t benefit anybody.”

Foreshadowing what the DOGE seems to be saying, a defiant Obama said: “No amount of waste is acceptable, not when it’s your money.”

Obama highlighted a number of websites being paid for by taxpayers’ money, as well as empty government buildings that are all hitting us in the pocket. Hyping a renewed effort to hunt down every dime, he tasked then-Vice President Joe Biden with spearheading the scheme. While you might not have heard of it, the Campaign to Cut Waste was signed into power by an executive order on June 13, 2011.

You might remember that Obama also controversially formed the United States Digital Service to overhaul the archaic government infrastructure in 2014. You might also remember that the USDS was recently revamped as the United States DOGE Service, and there was a mass walkout due to its handling under Musk’s new regime.

It seems Rogan was trying to do Musk a favor here by taking the heat off some of the controversy surrounding the DOGE’s actions, although it’s instead led to some claiming Musk has simply stolen the idea from the Obama administration.

Others were annoyed by the video and claimed it calls out the double standards of those who are against Musk’s work with the DOGE.

One Musk supporter cheered: “The difference is… Joe lined his and Obama’s pockets… Elon is getting rid of it!”

Another added: “Makes sense. Amazing how when a Republican tries to do it then the Democrats automatically want to stop it.”

A third chimed in: “Bizarre how Obama administration proclaimed the exact things that’s being implemented by Musk today, but somehow the dems ain’t happy 😂😂. DUEL STANDARDS.”

Someone else remained a little more neutral as they concluded: “He laid out all the bullsh*t in his speeches and for the life of me I don’t know how everyone f**king missed it.. maybe they didn’t and just f**king didn’t give a sh*t, I don’t know…”

Even though this isn’t the first time the comparison has been made, some have accused Musk of ‘weaponizing’ Obama’s supposedly good intentions. While Musk’s supporters and the likes of Rogan continue to rally around him, it’s clear the DOGE remains divisive.

Ontario has cancelled its $100 million Starlink contract in response to Trump’s tariffs.

Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, announced that the province has scrapped its contract with Elon Musk’s satellite internet company Starlink.

The move was in retaliation to President Donald Trump’s trade measures against Canada, reported CBC.

Ford also announced that all US-based companies would be banned from future provincial contracts, accusing Trump of ‘choosing chaos’ over cooperation.

“It’s done, it’s gone,” Ford said, referring to the contract. “We won’t award contracts to people who enable and encourage economic attacks on our province and our country.”

The decision follows the US President’s announcement of new ‘catastrophic’ tariffs on Canadian exports, including 25 percent tariffs on Canadian exports and 10 percent tariffs on Canadian energy.

Bill Pugliano / Stringer / Getty

The 60-year-old justified the move by claiming Canada, Mexico and China should be held ‘accountable for their promises to halt the flood of poisonous drugs into the US.’ However, the tariffs have been delayed for a second time due to uncertainty and blowback from financial markets.

In a comment that further strained relations, Trump suggested that the only way for Canada to avoid tariffs was to become America’s 51st state.

Ford didn’t take kindly to the remark. In response, he threatened to cut off power to 1.5 million US customers and placed a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to New York, Michigan and Minnesota.

Ford said: “This is not the outcome anyone wanted. “We could have poured our efforts into making Canada and the US the two richest, most successful, safest, most secure two countries on the planet. Unfortunately, one man — President Trump — has chosen chaos instead.”

SpaceX‘s subsidiary Starlink signed a contract with Ontario in November 2023 to provide high-speed internet to 15,000 rural and remote homes by summer 2025.

Doug Ford is the Premier of Ontario / Steve Russell / Contributor / Getty

SpaceX is one of Musk’s many tech ventures, alongside his responsibilities of serving as a close ally of Trump and heading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

The decision to pull the plug has raised concerns for remote communities that struggle with internet access.

Sol Mamakwa, the Ontario NDP MPP for Kiiwetinoong, said the cancellation could leave many northern communities with even fewer options for connectivity.

“My initial post of it was essentially to the people that messaged me from the north in my riding on how it’s going to impact them,” Mamakwa said, adding that those who have already subscribed to Starlink will not be affected.

Elsewhere, Ontario’s liquor wholesaler and retailer has confirmed it will no longer buy or sell US alcohol. If the trade war continues, the province fears it could lead to a disaster in many Ontario industries, like auto manufacturing and steel production.

“We also need to be ready to dig in for a long fight,” Ford pointed out. “We need to be ready to escalate using every tool in