(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
... Mostrar másI 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 same time as Starlink…
Maybe there’s TWO stories? And some truth in both?
#Ukraine #Russia #Ruzzia #satelliteSystems #militaryHardware #responsibility #trust #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses
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in reply to Steve Herman • • •they say they want to limit diesel strikes, but this is definitely about Ukraine starting to hit Russian data centers.
The billionaires and Republicans depend on that digital division and hate, otherwise the Mamdanis of the world would win.