SpaceX corporation has informed the United States government that the company can no longer fund the StarLink services provided to Ukraine. Without Starlink, the Ukrainian army will have almost no way to reliably communicate with what's left of its battlefield troops, and would almost immediately collapse.
This comes days after Ukrainian Ambassador Melnyk Andrij told Musk to “fuck off.”
To many observers, this is a two-fold matter:
1) Ukraine bashed the heck out of StarLink founder Elon Musk for daring to suggest a negotiated peace with Russia; so it is likely Musk has his nose out of joint over the insults, AND;
2) It likely costs almost nothing to fund the operation of Ukraine's Starlink services since all the satellites were already up and operating, so this is seen by many as a naked money grab; to get the US gov't to fork over more cash under the guise of "aid to Ukraine."
Either way, it seems to many that Musk wins. He either gets to shut off the people who took his help for granted, then bashed him publicly for suggesting peace, OR, he gets a ton of cash from the US government to continue providing service to Ukraine.
UPDATE 8:51 AM EDT -- Elon Musk suggests he is pulling Starlink from Ukraine because ambassador was rude
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No, not really. These are low-earth-orbit satellites (~340mi up). They are not geosynchronous (22k mi up). They cover everything from 60Nlat to 60Slat.
Ukraine is in that range.....and they allow service or not.
They DO NOT have to serve Ukraine. And they don't have to do anything to STOP serving Ukraine other than to choose to ignore their transmissions ..... or brick their antenna/terminal boxes.
Choosing to provide service to Ukraine was a business (and perhaps humanitarian) decision.
Even if Ukraine has the satellite dishes/terminals....Starlink DOES NOT have to provide service.
never grateful for anything you do for them...
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musk-alarmed-after-appearing-well-known-ukrainian-kill-list
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/musk-russia-may-kill-starlink-white-and-dod-comment-spacex-ukraine
questions?
1. is starlink actually working or not? two days ago
the russians reported they disabled it....
so is the fixed or not...
2. how the fuck did the US/NATO wind up dependent
on a privatly-owned (by a flakey guy) comms
network for major military ops... starlink probably
didn't even exist when the DOD set up its
battlefield comms designs.... WTF???
Guess he better tweet more dogecoin hype or some othersuch BS to rally the minions behind his latest snake oil offering. As I've said, a fraud, con-man, grifter.
https://firstfactcheck.substack.com/p/fact-check-elon-musk-was-a-klaushttps://www.technocracy.news/transhuman-elon-musk-your-brain-will-get-its-own-usb-c-port/
These were just the top three that came up in my search, not googo, the truth is out there.
Wow, Elon! Sooo loved, and we know how much you crave it
Glad I'm not that guy! Oh, wait .ima chick. Same one hoping you'll WAKE UP FAST.
I work with these kinds of cases. Was told that yes, Jane, there's plenty of serial murderers in heaven.
So there's hope for you yet, kiddo.
Isn't there???
Love it.
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That was super fast!
Let's Hope "ALL U.S. Government Funds to Ukraine Are Diverted Back Too and Used for the American Citizens!"
Hahahahahaha bwahahahahaha!
He has bots following HTRS et al.
I read your post as…
Fuck off and turn on the PERCOSET !
*forget the coffee mug, hand me the carafe!!
Yes....all 3k+ of them of the planned 12k+!
Right...........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
" As of September 2022, Starlink consists of over 3,000 mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO),[5] which communicate with designated ground transceivers. In total, nearly 12,000 satellites are planned to be deployed, with a possible later extension to 42,000. "
Russian Fighter Jet Disables US Missile Destroyer Using Electronic Warfare Weapon
Nov 08, 2014
The State Department acknowledged that the crew of the
destroyer USS Donald Cook has been gravely demoralized ever
since their vessel was flown over in the Black Sea by a Russian
Sukhoi-24 (Su-24) fighter jet which carried neither bombs nor
missiles but only an electronic warfare device. According to
some specialized media, 27 sailors from the USS Donald Cook
requested to be relieved from active service.
The USS destroyer was completely “disabled” and dead in the waters.
I recall, at the time, that there were reports that the commanding
officer of the USS Donald Cook quickly retired form the Navy in
disgust over the Navy's inept ability to equip their vessels against
such an attack.
(I believe Steve Quayle said this ship was crippled more than once,
by the same electronic warfare attacks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s4sKAMgYsU&list=PLEpr4aa9rk9pLnFwJtq2gsqSVx9WdrxHD&index=2
_____ŽoMßÎËÞLÅÑËT
Accept :
1) the state department DIDN"t acknowledge any such thing.
2) 'Glorious Russian Cruiser Slava'....is at the bottom of the Black Sea....sunk by an INDIGENOUS (Neptune) Ukrainian missile.....without having fired a shot. The flagship of the Black Sea Fleet......at war.....never knew what hit it.
And yet.....Russia cannot accept their failures...
First of which is......"They Started to Believe their Own Bullshit".....
That shit was supposed to be for the fools who read their press releases.
They.......they started to believe it.
So scrap one Slava class cruiser.....
This is reason that Trump brought in all the navy ships, and aircraft, every thing in the electronic systems of ships and aircraft were changed and up dated. I have heard that the Russians told us several times our ships were vulnerable and once they demonstrated what could occur we finally moved to fix the shortfalls.
This is Musk's way of saying, hey my satellites are of no use to Ukraine because the Russians have a better jamming system than I do.
The Ukrainian Army is already blind on the battlefield and I can tell you, you can not operate any sized element on a battlefield without communication. This effectively means that the artillery and foot soldiers are left on the battlefield with out knowledge of support, resupply or causality/medical status. They are completely blind.
I recall reading that a day or two ago... If it is still true
then what is this all about anyhow, since the satellites
are not working they are useless and it would make no sense to pay anything for them.... also wondering
how is it possible to jam just the ones over Ukraine without screwing up much larger parts or all of the starlink network... and were they ONLY jammed or
permanently damaged/disabled???
You can Jam them from the ground with directed Radio Frequency, You can blind them with Lasers, you can blow them out of the air by missiles, directed energy weapons, killer satellites. What Russia is doing now is jamming and blinding them.
Although you may not see the connections... the richest man on the planet and a real estate magnet who's partner is George Soros. Jared's net worth is over $1.1 Billion at this time. An elite club to be in for sure.
You think they have puppet masters, I believe they are the puppet masters and answer only to the prince of darkness himself, the son of perdition.
Elon's father was rich, in developing real estate. His ownership in the emerald mine didn't happen until almost a decade after he and Elon's mother divorced. Elon worked his way through college and had over a $100,000 student loan debt. He was not getting handouts from his father, nor his mother. She was not from a rich family.
Anyways, watch this peace treaty Elon is pushing, as more wars flare up, look for him and Jared Kushner to push for peace... as it is written, they shall say peace and safety, then comes utter destruction.
Sadly, I had to thumbs up this one.
The Kukraniums have dirt to fling about is why. Listen to the HTRS live weekdays at 9pm EDT/NYC time, broadcast to 70 nations. Mr. Turner spells it all out so brilliantly, and, often hilariously. :)
...the Ukrainians "know where all the bodies are hidden" in re the various corruption and laundering and illicit weapons labs, and other things. They basically have all the power elite blackmailed, so they can be pretty cocky towards them. Tulsi Gabbard just called them all on this.
Elon may be rich, and may have taken a lot of government funding on his projects, but I doubt if he is in need of Ukraine's protection racket, so he may be one of the few who can have an honest opinion. He does act like he is pretty much his own man. We'll see. If so, I hope he is watching his back pretty well, especially when flying.
Who is serious need of God's transformative powers.
its probably the latter... the former would be too good
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