Never change, London 
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Plus Appel, and fake butter where no farmers need to be involved.
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In just a few years he’s gone from innovative electric cars to an online porn generator…
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And suggesting that any criticism of Twitter being used to create sexually explicit photos and videos of children is censorship and an affront to his right to freedom of speech… 
Oh, and just blocking access unless you pay him for a premium Twitter account just makes him a peddler of kiddie porn.
Suggesting that calling someone ‘pedo-guy’ was actually mutual admiration?
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I think it’s telling that of all the four letter c-words in the world right now, Vladimir Putin would struggle for a top three spot. Musk is in there. His and the others’ are much anticipated obituaries. Putin is a threat to regional peace. Trump, Netanyahu and Lord Haw Haw are angling for world domination..
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You didn’t mention Xi Jinping, but I think the Chinese are more subtle - about half a century ago I had a partner from HK who explained that they’d had a couple of thousand years of civilisation when we were still running round dressed in animal skins. The Chinese long view is always interesting, they’re not constrained by five year election cycles or the life span of dictators.
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They are also strategic planners (Chinese) and have usually considered all outcomes before making a move. Childish Americans are just reactive.
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That’s the fundamental problem with Western democracies : no strategic thinking beyond the term limits of the current government.
The Chinese Communist Party puts party before personality and, since there’s no other party to get in their way, they can make 10, 25, 50 and even 100 plans safe in the knowledge that the CCP will still be running things.
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I don’t see that he needs to invade Taiwan when China is expanding freely into Eastern Russia. And doing quite alright internationally, thank you very much. usual we need to be fed that line to justify military. And of course China needs to keep beating its chest over the issue.
The orange loony’s actions could be and in my opinion will be a catalyst for something much worse.
Until Putin’s incursion in to Ukraine most of these tyrants by and large kept it on home territory. Militarily at least.
Somewhat, perhaps. I agree with the notion that one of China’s strengths is the ability to make longer term plans. Perhaps another is to industrialise - and keep corruption under control while doing so (one of Russia’s weaknesses is that here has always been massive corruption and Putin encourages it if anything).
But Xi wields personal power as well. Several opponents have “disappeared” since he came to power, have they not, in the name of his anti-corruption purges.
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