Is Elon Musk, arguably the world’s richest person, “a power broker” in the ongoing war in Ukraine?Or is he a person who obeys international law by not becoming a private mercenary? And, should he be remembered in history as a person who helped the world avert a nuclear war, which could have been aggravated to be a full-fledged World War III?

Answers to the above questions are likely to solicit different, mostly conflicting, answers. Of the three principal companies that Elon Musk owns – X (earlier name Twitter), Tesla (electrical automobiles), and SpaceX that operates the Starlink satellite internet constellation, it is his aerospace venture that is in the news.