(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House. reuters.com/world/europe/order-limit-starshield-ukraine-came-inside-white-house-sources-say-2026-10-…
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in reply to Steve Herman • • •I have already read so much contradictory information on the *responsibility* for this situation (Ukraine losing satellite system functionality at critical periods & without warning, thus limiting its capacity to defend its own population - & that of US embassy etc personnel in Kyiv - from Russian ballistics as well as losing capacity to attack its enemy Russia): Elon Musk saying it was solely the White House, this repeated by Reuters; Combat Veteran News attributing it to Musk, saying SpaceX lost 10% of its value because Elon (described as “ketamine-addled”) read some sh*t on twitter, got mad & screwed the Ukrainians… as well as his own capacity to make money, pointing out that no military is going to want to buy SpaceX/Starlink after Elon’s demo that he/US govt can turn it off on a whim whenever they want to… if there is *any* alternative at all (& apparently EUTelSat stock correspondingly up by ~15% even tho’ its a poor competitor). Another expert says a 2nd satellite system, controlled by the US Govt stopped working at the
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Maybe there’s TWO stories? And some truth in both?
#Ukraine #Russia #Ruzzia #satelliteSystems #militaryHardware #responsibility #trust #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses
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