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WSJ: Musk personally ordered Starlink slowdown that crippled Ukraine's dronesRubio denies US government involvement in the slowdown
8 Oct 21 3:21 AM · 18d ago · 2 articles · 4 posts · 70 comments · 5 sources · development 8 of 8
Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied that the US government was involved in the Starlink slowdown, after the WSJ report said the speed cap rendered some Ukrainian military drones virtually useless.
Elon Musk SpaceX/Starlink owner
Donald Trump US President
Marco Rubio US official denying government roleUkraine's military Affected party
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first by Anadolu Agency, 18d ago
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It is beyond what a heart can bear, but at this point in his sorry life, we must admit that he seems to enjoy killing people, especially children.
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What power? If anything he’s complying with war law and international law by doing this. Therefor he doesn’t have much power over the situation. Countries shouldn’t be relying on a private company to provide them with their entire say-com operations. That just bad op-sec. I don’t like Elon as much as the next guy but he and starlink did say that…
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KYIV POST: Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Disrupted Ukrainian Drone Operations – WSJ https://www. kyivpost.com/post/87694 Elon Musk ordered restrictions on Starlink’s military-grade service used by Ukraine, disrupting drone strikes and air defense operations, the Wall Street Journal reported. The move exposed Kyiv’s dependence on SpaceX as…
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He is a foreign agent sent in to undermine the US.
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Maybe the core MAGA base is anti-Ukraine, but a lot of Republicans are still very anti-Russia and pro-Ukraine. Trump has to manage inside party politics as well. Presidents maintaining plausible deniability while getting others to take the action is nothing new. “Musk and President Donald Trump , who have both recently criticized Ukrainian…
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"Musk had pitched the idea of slowing the service to Trump [in order for Ukrainian civilians to be killed by Russian bombs]" Musk already was on track to kill more people than Stalin.
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so on top of all the deaths from DOGE cuts to USAID..now he's killing Ukrainian civilians really trying to get Hitler numbers 
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I think some are but not most of them. I think most of them genuinely find it offensive when people don’t fit into neatly bounded fields as described to them by whatever authority they’ve chosen to abdicate their will to. It makes navigating society hard for them because they need to know if a person is in field x or not, since field x is either…
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Meanwhile, there are well-documented ties between Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin.
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Well yeah, he limited bandwidth, he didn't completely turn it off. It's not the purpose of Starlink to run military operations and fly drone strikes..... It also puts the US in a hard place, because it is considered a direct aid in Ukrain fighting the war. I promise you Russia was threatening the destruction of that grid, which could easily happen…
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Only if Musk takes enough of it. I’d like to see him demonstrate that his capacity to take it is truly “unlimited”
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Considering that Iran's entire war strategy is to tighten the oil product market what does that mean Ukraine's attacks on refineries are doing? It's stupid that trump put the US in this position but US and UA interests are no longer neatly aligned. Well, not that that they ever really were. But pretending that the war in ukraine is relevant to a…
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Damn. If Musk really ordered a slowdown on the military Starlink Ukraine was relying on, that’s a massive deal
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Nope disagree with you. A CEO is accountable and responsible...he can be taken to task and must answer...unlike a government figure head that you can do nothing to...hides behind his protection from the citizen, all of it set into law, so he remains untouchable. Not so with any CEO...and the CEO can take a serious hit with stock valuation…
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Musk ordered Starlink (tracking incoming Russian missles) shutdown that cost many Ukrainian lives…
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Great move. You’ve just made sure you’ll never be able to sell Starlink as a solution to any army other than the US military, after demonstrating how unreliable and dependent on one person’s goodwill it is. Now that SpaceX is publicly traded, I’d be questioning whether a decision like this, with major consequences for the company’s commercial…
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He purposely slowed Starlink, caused Ukraine to be open to Russian attacks, and became a murderer of women and children in a matter of hours. Lock the traitor up.
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Yes. He thinks he's immune from political blowback because effectively he is. There will be no real consequence to this; he will get some bad press, but he's always getting some bad press, and he will remain a trillionaire who can do whatever he wants whenever and wherever he wants with thousands or more of yes-men surrounding him worshipping his…
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i absolutely think they both happily did it. musk suggested it and trump loved it.
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He was under the influence of a drug at the time Then you do public excuses for having done a double Nazi salute in direct TV during the inauguration of a president. Musk never acknowledged it even was a Nazi statute, and as a result normalized it for all Nazis of the world. Could we excuse Jan25 Musk? Maybe. But we can't excuse Feb25 Musk, Mar25…
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I'm sure Ukraine has a good little team for this type of thing.
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Rosatom has developed a plasma rocket engine what theoretically could take spaceflight mission even to Mars. Given that Russia itself does nothing with this technology, it is custom request design meant for export purposes. Customers are not many who would be intrested of that, but one with adequate purchasing power is there. Do your own…
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Don’tt give him that much credit. He’s more a cartoon villain.
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Clearly those in power have in the past and continue to want to keep the wealth flowing from one exkgb now Russia’s leader and his oligarchs to sell more real estate is the only reason our leader continues to give our allies in Europe the middle finger time and time again. He’s looking forward to opening Trump Tower Moscow. Just you watch.
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