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.”
An immigrant working in the defense industry took an action to aid an ally of an enemy the country has current ongoing conflicts with, causing a diplomatic incident.
Let’s see those charges!
All these people talking about treason and accountability for Elon… he’s helping Russia. Russia is America’s ally, not Ukraine. Ukraine is a smaller country, one that America wants to loot for minerals/resources once the war ends. Don Trump Jr married a Russian oligarch’s asset, had a wedding party paid for by that oligarch. They are more than friends, they are family, in the same way that old ‘royal’ families settled disputes by marrying their children off.
Why would Elon’s actions be considered treasonous/wrong, when he’s helping America’s friends? If Ukraine wanted to be friends with America, they should’ve sent busloads of young girls to the white house as tribute, not some war-weary Zelenski guy.
Just to be clear to any American thinking this is satirical – it’s not. America is friendly/helping dictators and fascists all over the place. Your country quite literally declared “Anti-fascists” the enemy. I don’t think anyone would be at all surprised, for example, if Trump took a vacation to North Korea’s weird ‘resort’ town, to hang out with Kim Jong.
I cannot believe I’m reading this article. How is this not treason? How is this not giving our enemies aid and comfort? Pulling back the ability of a strategic partner to defend themselves against Russia. If something like this doesn’t deserve the strongest pushback and consequences I don’t know what does.
- He’s apparently got a new response to the situation. I’d pay close attention to the words he’s using and what narrative he’s both adhering to and modifying. This is dangerous.
We are not actually at war with Russia. That’s it. Without that, it can’t be treason in the U.S.
If we were at war with Russia…we’ll, he has a lot of wealth. I think that also means laws don’t apply to him.
Russia is definitely our enemy.
Russia’s openly sabotaging all NATO members, and NATO is the US’s former means of power projection in Europe, WE aren’t at war with them, but they have no problem being at war with us.
Interfering with a nations at war is a serious issue and he should definitely be held accountable. He should be acting as a common carrier. Deciding to turn off or slow access during wartime should absolutely have serious consequences with jail time and fines as well as the possibility of his service getting nationalized.
The fact that he has no fear and thinks he can do whatever he wants when Daddy Putin comes calling is ridiculous.
Elon Shrugged
Blockbuster report that will result in no action.
Need people to be strong enough to confront America, that’ll only happen after the countrys gone bankrupt. Which may take some time even under Donald.
If this is true, and it wasnt the DoD, how on earth could they keep using starshield.
The whole fucking point of starshield is they own and operate it.
This is breaking like core tenant of what it is.
Such an idiotic move if true.
Edit: like earlier there were reports Musk suggested it to trump or whatever. Still horrible, but at least that kept control within the DoD which would keep the illusion they are in control.
Yes, Musk reportedly alteady said this wasn’t him, because he has no control. So someone is lying. On Par.
Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one’s native country; attempting to overthrow its government; spying on its military, its diplomats, its officials, or its secret services for a hostile foreign power; or attempting to kill its head of state. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor.
The offense of treason exists at both federal and state levels. The federal crime is defined in the Constitution (and is the only crime defined by it) as either levying war against the United States or adhering to its enemies, and carries a sentence of death or imprisonment and fine.
Time to nationalize Starlink if he’s gonna be fascist about it.
We are beyond the time where we needed to nationalize starlink from that fuck, not that trump would do much better things with it…
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.
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?
Musk must be at least slightly upset by the latest missile attack by Russia on Ukraine. The children killed were white! His DOGE cuts on USAid proved he prefers to have a hand in non-white children dying.
You forgot that there are multiple rungs in the priority ladder of the Loser Nazi. It’s Money -> … -> Children -> … -> Non-white Children
Elon Musk turned himself into a military target
Good!
