SpaceX Suspends Starlink Service to Ukraine, Cites Unpaid Bills
Elon Musk’s Starlink says it can no longer afford to give Ukraine 🇺🇦 free service and asks the Pentagon 🇺🇸 to pay for it. Starlink had been a game changer in the war.
This comes days after Ukrainian Ambassador @MelnykAndrij told Musk to “fuck off.”
— Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) October 14, 2022
The system, which has been critical in both Command and Control (C2) and targeting of Russian ground forces to great effect, hasn’t been paid despite the billions of dollars of US aid and free weapons supplied to the Zelinsky government.
Zelinsky has since demanded more money.
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Marx was right- ‘history repeats, first as tragedy then as farce’.
He is light in the wallet after the Twitter deal as well.
Saw some tweet screen grab about some cologne or fragrance that he wants to sell but not sure if it is real or satire.
He might even have visions of a bear doing something about satellites.
With all the billions sent to them, if you knew nothing about ukrain, you would probably wonder why they can’t pay bills.
Every last dime a waste.
I wonder if some of the Ukraine supporting boomers social security money will be used to pay for it a la USGOV handout to put it back online.
You know, cuz Slava Ukraiina! The same people who had no idea where Ukraine was, what the Trizub even symbolizes or what the colors on their flag even represent.
This.
My brother, I was saying it kind of tongue in cheek. Then more info came out that indeed Musk wanted to Pentagon to pay the bill if Ukraine didn’t.