Plus he lied about what his company could actually do from the beginning, leading to an inflated stock price. The idea was Tesla was streets ahead of the rest of the industry, in reality they weren’t all that far ahead and other brands surpassed them quickly.
That’s like saying your boyfriend doesn’t want to hit you, you’ve just not done exactly as he said, so he had to hit you.
I’m sure Putin would be happy if the whole world made him the supreme leader, without a single conflict. But that’s not really the way the world works, his actions can have no other outcome than a world war. It’s up to the rest of us to prevent this in whatever way possible.