In this context, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and founder of SpaceX, recently claimed that the conflict was unavoidable, illustrating his point with an image of a rooster standing in front of a KFC restaurant. KFC represents the West, and Ukraine is represented by the rooster, which has made friends with Russia’s adversary. Putin regards NATO and the European Union as threats to his country’s sovereignty and has demanded that they commit to never expanding NATO again and refrain from conducting military operations on Ukrainian and other Eastern European, South Caucasus, and Central Asian territories.
