I think he has a very expensive proprietary satellite network that was never meant for military use or to work in military conditions and I have no idea who has been paying for it but apparently not Ukraine or the US, but I imagine it's quite expensive and under capitalism, especially for a private corporation, nothing comes for free.
It's pretty weird to provide the entire communications infrastructure for a country at war and be expected to do it for free, indefinitely. War is about making tons and tons of profit, not acting selflessly in accordance with one's principles.
It's also weird that he's saying this in public instead of hitting up the Pentagon or Ukraine to start paying their internet bill.
I think starlink is yet another musk project that only exists because of federal funds, the air force was testing it for total battlefield awareness in Africa before or right as the first beta program started.
It was just never intended to be used against a peer adversary, only nations without the ability to intercept or jam satellites.
Sure, but why are Ukraine officials hyping up this thing if it isn't useful? No one seems to want to pay for it so there are probably better way to get a cut of DoD money.
I think he has a very expensive proprietary satellite network that was never meant for military use or to work in military conditions and I have no idea who has been paying for it but apparently not Ukraine or the US, but I imagine it's quite expensive and under capitalism, especially for a private corporation, nothing comes for free.
It's pretty weird to provide the entire communications infrastructure for a country at war and be expected to do it for free, indefinitely. War is about making tons and tons of profit, not acting selflessly in accordance with one's principles.
It's also weird that he's saying this in public instead of hitting up the Pentagon or Ukraine to start paying their internet bill.
That's the funny part. For some reason he's doing both.
we all know the reason, the reason is that he is both very stupid and addicted to twitter
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I think starlink is yet another musk project that only exists because of federal funds, the air force was testing it for total battlefield awareness in Africa before or right as the first beta program started.
It was just never intended to be used against a peer adversary, only nations without the ability to intercept or jam satellites.
If the hype is to believed it's kinda working.
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Sure, but why are Ukraine officials hyping up this thing if it isn't useful? No one seems to want to pay for it so there are probably better way to get a cut of DoD money.
When Musk does it, he should do it for free.
As a punishment for saying peace should break out. That's the worst possible thing anyone can say. Worse than the literal Nazis on Ukraine's side.