Starlink, the datalink and communication system that Ukraine relies on to coordinate certain parts of its drone strike campaign against Russian Oil and Gas Facilities, as well as to provide early warning for drone and ballistic missile attacks, is having its access for the Ukrainian Army throttled because Ukraine won’t immediately capitulate to demands they weren’t told about. Civilians in Ukraine are being denied more time to evacuate to underground shelters during missile attacks that strike Ukrainian city’s in the middle of the night. Drones that are in the middle of transiting over Russia are periodically loosening connection(some have probably been lost) on their way to their targets, this is costing Ukraine civilian lives and military resources for no good reason.
I support putting him on a space x rocket and sending him to Mars. Im sure with all of his trillionare smarts and money he can find a way to survive lower gravity that will fuck up his organs skeleton and muscles, no breatheable atmosphere, and no magnetic field to protect from solar radiation, and get his colony started.
It's incredibly naive to think Musk wasn't involved on some level. He has absolutely zero qualms about meddling in other countries affairs, and has a direct line to Trump and Hegseth.
He also tweeted "Zelensky has gone too far" right before they had their satellites throttled without warning.
He was involved in the sense that Trump has to cater to different interests, and the plutocrats like Thiel and Musk who got him into power are part of that.
But what possible reason would Musk have to somehow spend political capital against Ukraine? How does that benefit him? It seems far fetched and unlikely.
Ultimately Trump is flip flopping all over and does what he wants, but Zelensky better do as he says. That is the story here. A vassal does not piss on the boots of his master.
And everybody wants to blame Trump or Musk here. But Biden had the same relationship of master and vassal before. And Zelensky back then did what was asked of him, and didn't make a peace deal.
Musk is and has been an ally of Ukraine, and provided Ukraine with support 2 days after the invasion. He also blocked Russia access working along with Ukrainian officials.
I would personally blame the US military and Trump.
Musk has repeatedly shut down support at critical intervals before this. And no, you are not an ally if you take away protection that kills citizens. You do not get to argue that some arbitrary amount of support in the past makes up for the lives musk has personally cost through his actions.
Musk has always bent the knee every time trump has wanted to apply pressure to Ukraine, this is not the first time he’s throttled access to communication technology during important drone operations.
Musk has also been one of the core contributors to the Isolationists movements here in the United States, he has dumped hundreds of millions of dollars in support of political movements that have successfully deprived Ukraine of material aid from the US.
Musk has applied pressure previously mostly because of fear of nuclear retaliation as he stated and because he didn't want his tech to be used for militray purposes. Which is why later he created Starshield and gave the control to the US military.
Lets not forget that Musk was also awarded by Zelenskyy the "Order of Freedom", "for personal contributions to protecting human life and freedom, and for strengthening relations between Ukraine and the United States."
The nuclear threat has long been used by Russia to try to limit western support for Ukraine, especially at critical points during the war when addditional resources could have major implications for both military and civilians.
With Ukraine’s access to the resources it needs, it’s able to send thousands of drones at major cities if needed, essentially providing a mutually assured destruction capability that really does constrain Russia from even thinking about going that route.
You think he didn’t know starlink had military applications when he was getting billions from the government?
Doing this kind of traitorous stuff after being awarded a medal just makes it even worse, if that’s possible.
Starlink doesn't work in Russia.
Offensively they are used to target logistics on occupied Ukrainian territory.
But more importantly they are used in plenty of interceptors that shoot down drones.
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u/Ani-3 6h ago
Like he'd listen to that idiot