Elon Musk ordered a “slowdown” to Starlink in Ukraine that set off a “panic” in the country and “confusion inside” the Trump administration.
The Wall Street Journal dropped a report on Tuesday diving into a disruption in Ukraine’s Starlink-internet service as they continue fighting a war with Russia.
According to U.S. officials and three people familiar with the situation, “Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration.”
We are beyond the time where we needed to nationalize starlink from that fuck, not that trump would do much better things with it…
I think we are beyond the time when the rest of the world needs to stop buying weapons systems from the US, altogether. What exactly are you paying for, if there’s even the slightest chance they’re going to sabotage you in the field?
This was starshield not starlink. Special satellites that are supposed to be owned by the US government and in their control.
If he unilaterally decided to alter starshield behavior, the US government should be losing its shit, and yes thats worthy of rationalizing starshield at least.
Altering starshield would be like the builder of patriot missiles preventing their launch while an incoming ballistic missle is about to hit you.