American entrepreneur, founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk said that between the loss of Crimea and the use of nuclear weapons, Russia will choose the latter. Musk also warned that an exchange of nuclear strikes between Russia and the US would trigger World War III. He wrote about it on Twitter.

 "If Russia is faced with a choice between losing Crimea or using nuclear weapons on the battlefield, they will choose the latter. We have already cut off (applied sanctions) Russia from the rest of the world, so what do they have to lose?" Musk wrote.

 Elon Musk also suggested that if we launch a nuclear attack on Russia, "they will launch a nuclear attack on us" and then "we will have World War III."

 <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If Russia is faced with the choice of losing Crimea or using battlefield nukes, they will choose the latter.<br><br> We've already sanctioned/cutoff Russia in every possible way, so what more do they have left to lose? <br><br>If we nuke Russia back, they will nuke us and then we have WW3.</p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1581989915491172353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src=" https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>