This is a bit misleading. Musk didn’t just drop $44 billion in cash. He contributed around $26 billion of his own money—mainly by selling Tesla shares. He also pulled in about $6 billion from outside investors like Larry Ellison, a Saudi prince, and the Qatar sovereign wealth fund. The rest—roughly $13 billion—came from bank loans, secured against Twitter itself, meaning Twitter (not Musk) is on the hook for that debt. So no, he didn’t just whip out a cheque for $44 billion.
All of that said, I don’t really give a flying proverbial where the money comes from—so long as we get paid. My preference is Rio Tinto, but it can be Kobol, the Chinese, or Santa Claus for all I care. I invested in a lithium mine, not a corruption factory. Let this fucking country be someone else’s problem.