The read on Zelensky: he's banking on Dems taking the midterms so the funding keeps coming, and the handouts are the whole reason there's no deal yet. Cut them off and suddenly he wants to talk. Elon Musk's framing is blunter: "There is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people." The top tier has gotten very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, per his quote, while ordinary kids get conscripted to die in trenches. His verdict on the war machine profiteering: it has to end. And Zelensky's move is to come to the table instead of leaning on America and Europe 🎯