If you’re hitting a paywall, here’s a CNN link to the same story: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html
random people having this kind of influence on international conflicts because they have a lot of money is good and healthy and okay
The free market will create another satellite network if musk’s isn’t right! /s
This but kind of unironically, him doing this makes it much more likely the US government will blow some of its military budget to fund some sort of competitor.
It wouldn’t be free market then.
That would be pretty cool considering they have tons of military budget obviously and more competition is a good thing.
If Musk doesn’t learn to play ball, the us government might well take control of the tech for the remainder of the war. Geopolitics is the game that is played with all the pieces.
It’s interesting to see how egotistical the man is. He’s just shown militaries all around the world that he’s willing to actively meddle in their battles. In other words, he is now a potentially powerful active combatant.
It’s easy to imagine the US military making plans to take over his operations in case of national emergency, and it’s also easy to imagine other countries coming up with black ops to deal with him in less friendly ways.
I’m sure he didn’t think about that, but if he did he’d probably feel proud that now he’s important, not realizing that it’s not the kind of importance a normal person would really want.
This is behaviour that gets you killed. Musk may be rich, but not “weapons manufacturer” or “oil magnate” powerful.
I’m starting to think Mr Musk might actually be a CIA asset. If he was doing this shit without signoff he’d turn up dead.
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I don’t think Ukraine has the resources to create, deploy, and operate its own satellite Internet network.
Surely the US has a satellite network they clould be making use off? Maybe there’s political reasons why they cant be given access.
The US does have its own satellite network, but it’s unlikely they’d let anyone else use it, even allies, because of the risk of leaking information, or even because it would let other people derive more information about its capabilities and limits.
That’s how you put yourself on the CIA and KGBs watch list
I’m guessing that as a supervillain (as @[email protected] pointed out), Musk expects the CIA and NSA to have nice thick dossiers on him. Since Musk has Putin on speed dial, the KGB probably shares their file and asks him for updates.
FSB not KGB
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I mean… that’s what the government, more so the political self interest in those of power wanted. Funding for NASA reduced and that easily could have done what SpaceX has accomplished, to pandering and almost begging Elon to get things done.
The system is beautiful.
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Paywalled articles are such a bummer. I understand why they exist, but hoarding knowledge sucks.
Sorry, I almost never hit their paywall so I forget it’s there. Here’s another article:
Waiting for him to have an “accident”
If you are hitting a paywall, remember to turn off scripts for this particular site on ublock origin
I have Unlock Origin. How do I turn off scripts for a particular site
pin it, click on the extension, you will get this box
Click on to make sure it’s crossed out. Now reload, if you were successful, you would see purple on
ubextensionThanks I’ll try
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Disable or simply not enable , need to be clear in terminology…
Was on. Now off. Also if you bothered to read the first sentence of the article you’d have your answer
