“We are living off his good graces,” a Pentagon official said of Musk’s role in the war in Ukraine. “That sucks.”Photo illustration by Matt Chase; Source photographs from Getty; Shutterstock Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and prepared to make a call to avert disaster in Ukraine. A staffer handed him an iPhone—in par
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