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Elon Musk doubled down on his challenge to fight Vladimir Putin in “single combat” for the fate of Ukraine Tuesday. The tech billionaire also hit back at Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a Kremlin ally who called the Tesla founder “effeminate.”

“You’ll need to pump up those muscles in order to change from the gentle (effeminate) Elona into the brutal Elon you need to be,” Kaydrov wrote on the Russian social media platform Telegram Monday following Musk’s challenge to Putin.

Kadyrov invited Musk to the Chechen Republic for training on firearms, martial arts, and how to “monitor and update your social network accounts,” according to a translation of his post, which Musk retweeted.

Without the training, Putin would appear “unsportsmanlike when he beats the hell out of” Musk, Kadyrov wrote.

After Kadyrov’s message, Musk changed his name on Twitter to “Elona Musk.” He also tweeted a photo of himself firing off the $500 flamethrower he had manufactured by The Boring Company in 2018 alongside a digitally altered photo of Putin riding a bear through a river.

“Thank you for the offer, but such excellent training would give me too much of an advantage,” Musk replied. “If he is afraid to fight, I will agree to use only my left hand, and I am not even left-handed.”

Putin is ex-KGB, but Musk is 19 years his junior. Who wins that battle?

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