It's like a board of Go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

Some assets flip, white to black, but ultimately it's clear that even if a piece presents as black or white right now, the turn order ensures it's final allegiance at the end of the game.

Right now, I think Twitter was safely owned by Black Hats up until the end of the 2020 election. At that point, different aspects of the company were up for grabs, and a scramble ensued between black hats and white hats to grab up as much of the bird as they could before the bell rang.

Elon, in my opinion, is a white hat asset which was flipped white. He is currently acting like a white piece, but can change back to black at a whim. He's a pivot point for this war, and a contact for both parties to communicate what turns they are making in this tit-for-tat game.

Elon, I'm sure, knows the white hats have an upper hand seeing how the black hats don't have Alwaleed backing them anymore. They still have an empire which has a controlling stake in world commerce, however, regardless of whether or not it's illegal. Big players are involved in the trafficking market, and if they were to go down so, too would their investments. Taking out the trafficking market will also nail the entire global economy along with it.

It's not as easy as flipping the light switch on and off.

Part of why these entrenched players are so protected is because they know if they are arrested it's not just them who will go broke. Our market is actually built on foundation blocks of illicit activity. They know that's the only way to get away with it. It's the "too big to fail" mentality/mantra.

Elon is acting like the jack which holds up the crossbeams so that the foundation blocks can be swapped out. Elon is temporary, and necessarily has to cooperate with the previous, rotting foundation for a time so that they don't take the whole house down with them as they get ripped out.