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  • 03 Dec, 2024

2024 will be an 'even crazier year' - Elon Musk

The billionaire's New Year's predictions come on the eve of the conflict in Ukraine and a controversial election in the US.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has predicted that 2024 will be "even crazier" than the previous four years. "Have a normal year," Musk replied to his followers.

"Could 2024 be a normal year?" An anonymous analyst known as "Wall Street Silver" tweeted on New Year's Eve. "After four years of madness, don't we deserve this?"

"My prediction is that 2024 will be even crazier," Musk replied on Monday.

Musk didn't predict any "crazy" events that might happen, but in subsequent tweets, the billionaire focused on the pace of artificial intelligence development, the rise in youth deaths from mass vaccinations against COVID-19, and the record of illegal immigration.

The anti-white rhetoric of US and South African presidential candidate Julius Malema. In 2023, Musk repeatedly warned that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine could lead to a nuclear war between Russia and the United States.

The billionaire offered Ukraine free access to SpaceX's Starlink internet service but refused to activate the service in the Crimea region for fear that Kyiv would use Starlink to direct drones at Russian warships. This made his company "directly complicit in the escalation of war and conflict," he explained last September.

Hundreds of comments under Musk's post suggest that much of this year's "madness" will revolve around the 2024 US presidential election. Musk has not endorsed any candidate running, but told an audience in November that he "will not be voting for President Joe Biden."

Musk, who previously expressed support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and described Vivek Ramaswami as a "promising candidate," said a rejection of Biden would not automatically translate into a vote for Republican nominee Donald Trump.