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Elon Musk says he withheld Starlink over Crimea to avoid escalation

18 pointsby tareqakover 1 year ago

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galenmarchettiover 1 year ago
Feels like the elephant in the room here is...why can't the US military deploy Starlink capabilities themselves? Is this not meaningful defense technology to own themselves / worthy of legitimate defense research+spending? Feels like with the amount of taxes going into defense, USG and their allies shouldn't have to rely on Elon to make strategically sound decisions
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ChumpGPTover 1 year ago
Apparently the Russians ships that he saved by sabotaging the Ukrainian effort has helped the Russians to continue bombing civilians. Those ships have been using their missiles from the Black Sea. He doesn't seem to have thought out his decision and helped the Russian Military whether it was intentional or not. In the end that decision cost some civilians their lives....
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