Why did they have it to begin with?
My question is, the russians need it? One would've presumed they had their own satelites for military purposes. But this 21st century has also taught me never to assume leaders know what they are doing.
Russian used to build all of their military gear, all reverse engineered from western stuff. Now they are scavenging parts from consumer goods to make missiles and what have you. So maybe they haven't kept pace with satelite stuff?
Because Elon is in bed with Russia and also a pedophile.
Not in bed with so much as he he jerks off into a test tube then pays people to put that in their hoo haws, but yeah.
Rumour is he got a penile extension and the procedure was botched, hence the in vitro stuff.
He's just making sure Twitters user count doesn't drop anymore.
Gotta keep those Russian bot farms going
Because they used middlemen in Iraq and the other middle eastern countries to get the terminals. It's incredibly likely that this has been in the works for a little while now. You don't wanna accidentally cut off access to Ukraine while clearing out the bootleg clients from Russia.
"There is no formal accusation that SpaceX is doing business with Russia directly - only that it might be failing to properly police redirection of its equipment to sanctioned entities like the Russian government."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/08/is_russia_using_starlink_in/
Higher ups in the Urkainian military said that there was a lot of soldier bought, and donated starlink dishes, and trying to do a country wide whitelist was complicated, and soldiers said they didn't want to report their dishes because they were worried they'd be confiscated for other uses. I'm sure civilians were worried about it as well.
Push came to shove though and they need to do it now.
edit: Like imagine being in some hell hole trench with a starlink you bought/donated and it's your only lifeline outside, and you're worried the higher ups are going to say, we need that dish for a seababy.
Having been involved in maintaining whitelists it's a shit of a job
Especially as you go through a zillion different iterations and systems.
I bet. Making it life or death would only make it worse as well.
Trump controls the DOJ and secretary of defense. Of course there is no formal investigation
Oh look, the consequences of Elon being in the Epstein files.
This is called PR.
The questions should be:
Why isn't he being prosecuted for being in the Epstein files?
Why isn't he being prosecuted for supplying internet to militantly aggressive enemies of the US?
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