{"id":476433,"date":"2023-01-08T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=476433"},"modified":"2023-01-18T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T09:23:19","slug":"elon-musk-sparks-heated-debate-on-twitter-saying-ukraine-shouldn-t-use-tanks-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/elon-musk-sparks-heated-debate-on-twitter-saying-ukraine-shouldn-t-use-tanks-against-russia","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk sparks heated debate on Twitter saying Ukraine shouldn&#8217;t use tanks against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter owner Elon Musk has sparked yet another debate on social media after he described tanks as &#8220;deathtraps&#8221; that should not be used in Russia &#8217;s war against Ukraine . &#8220;Tanks are a deathtrap now,&#8221; tweeted Mr Musk before drawing parallels with the First World War. &#8220;With neither side having air superiority, you&#8217;re left with infantry &amp; artillery &#8211; essentially WW1.&#8221; The comments from the tech tycoon came as Ukraine received tank-killing armored vehicles in its latest multibillion-dollar package of military aid from the US. This included 50 Bradley armored vehicles and 500 anti-tank missiles they can fire. Germany also announced it would supply around 40 Marder armored personnel carriers and France promised wheeled AMX-10 RC tank destroyers. Western countries have stopped short of providing heavy tanks to Ukraine that could be used for offensive operations, despite Kyiv saying it needs them. In a video message thanking France&#8217;s Emmanuel Macron for the AMX-10s, Ukraine&#8217;s president Volodymyr Zelensky said: &#8220;There is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter owner Elon Musk has sparked yet another debate on social media after he described tanks as &#8220;deathtraps&#8221; that should not be used in Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine.&#8220;Tanks are a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}