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That's a lot of word gymnastics for saying "he can change the deal whenever he feels like it". Even if it's pro-bono.
Look at it this way: Elon lives in the west. The west is tasked with promoting and supporting democracies and opposing autocracy.
Especially if the service in question was paid for by subsidies.
We know that DoD is paying for Starlink service in Ukraine, but there are no public details of the contract. Not sure how paying for a service is a subsidy.
"Opposing Autocracy" is an interesting choice of words, since everyone who's up in arms about this is implying that the government should force a private company to participate in any war on whatever terms they dictate. Freedom isn't easy, sometimes people and companies do stuff you don't like, but I we want a working democracy you have to give them that liberty or else loose your own eventually.