[lostlogin]

Musk has to agree though - and he was shutting this down at various points in Ukraine over his support for Russian.

Ideally Starlink wouldn’t be involved.

[stevenhuang]

The situation was more complicated than that, there was pressure from the US gov (itar) and desire not escalate the situation at the time.

Now that the geopolitical situation has changed and funding concerns mostly alleviated, there are 200k terminals in use in Ukraine.

https://circleid.com/posts/starlink-in-ukraine-what-three-ye...

[lostlogin]

He took a very public approach to navigating that and while that would be on brand, it’s wild. He seem to have been directly communicating with Putin.

Disconnecting Ukraine at key points in battles would fit with the current administration’s flip flopping approach, but again he is at the front of it and on Twitter slagging off supposed American allies.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/10/why-is-elon-musk-talki...

This may all get weird again as the US seems to have blundered into conflict with Russia over Venezuela so maybe the Ukraine may see some support.