“In hindsight, it was a mistake for SpaceX to send (Ukraine) thousands of free Starlink dishes and millions of dollars a month in free service at the beginning of the war,” the post reads.
congress should just nationalize starlink (and spacex) if our defense posture depends on it. No company exec should be able to influence our foreign policy at his whim. The company will operate just fine without Musk, if not better.
The American people paid for them fuckwit
Corporate welfare gave you everything you have
Absolutely, Tesla and SpaceX were built on public subsidies and contracts.
In hindsight, it was a mistake for SpaceX to send (Ukraine) thousands of free Starlink dishes
It was a mistake for Ukraine to accept them too, if you ask me. Becoming dependent on a mercurial neo-Nazi like Musk is not a smart idea. But I guess needs must when the devil drives.
There isn’t any alternative. It was either to take it from Musk or to struggle without communication and die.
fiber optics tethered drones go brrrr
Not for 500+ miles they don’t.
Not with that attitude
In war, even a short lived advantage, is still an advantage.
They didn’t become solely reliant on it, they still use fiber drones and other lower bandwidth rf alternatives.
They were smart in their application and have politicized the waiver starlink support very effectively.
Overall I believe they’ve done a fantastic job adapting to their available options. Semper Gumby.
No one should be using starlink. It has been shown to be completely untrustworthy as a service both by Elon and how it has been used and abused by foreign governments.
The sooner Europe, China and all these other regions build their own, the better.
Yes, because even more satellites in lLEO is exactly what humanity needs right now, we still. Don’t have enough pollution and Kessler was just a pussy, right?
Kessler syndrome isn’t a big problem in LEO relatively speaking as everything there will fall quickly if not boosted
But pollution is real
If we could have a worldwide apolitical setup that made better use of the night sky that we love then that would be best, but we can’t. The ability to communicate in this way is a geopolitical necessity in any modern warfare. Space and AI are the new arms race
Move to Russia already you traitor dirtbag
The mistake was to use starlink for a mission critical purposes.
No more government money for starlink
The mistake was to use starlink for us government purposes, including allowing it organizing totally uncontrolled communications of the white house, who knows what classified info was shared this time with russia or the other dictators.
The second mistake was to give starlink/spacex any subsidies at all, a company claiming to be that big can easily stand on its own legs.
Another oops was the dismantling of the respected NASA in favor of spaceX to let it decide on anything spacefaring.
