2y ago

Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships: Report

www.thedailybeast.com

The billlionaire allegedly feared the strike on Crimea could trigger nuclear war.

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2y ago

Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships

www.thedailybeast.com /musk-secretly-used-starlink-to-foil-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-russian-ships-report

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2y ago

Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships: Report

www.thedailybeast.com /musk-secretly-used-starlink-to-foil-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-russian-ships-report

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2y ago

Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships

www.thedailybeast.com /musk-secretly-used-starlink-to-foil-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-russian-ships-report

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The man is an enemy of the west and should be treated as such
Billionaire dipshit doesn't understand why he can't order everyone to do what he wants. People die.
Nationalize SpaceX now
Tax Billionaires at 90% now
Begin the investigation of Musk's inevitable and obvious tax fraud
This "I just wanted peace (for Putin)" shit is another item too far. Way too far.
CNN report : https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html
Wow directly intervening in a foreign war. He's insane.
- "Narcissistic personality disorder"
Elon Musk secretly ordered SpaceX engineers to switch off the Starlink satellite communications network near the coast of occupied Crimea in order to thwart a Ukrainian surprise attack on Russia’s naval fleet, according to a report. The incident last year is reported in Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography of the billionaire titled Elon Musk. With the comms down, the Ukrainian submarine drones packed with explosives “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes, according to CNN. Musk was reportedly motivated to foil the attack out of concern that a strike on Crimea would constitute a “mini-Pearl Harbor” and lead to Russia retaliating with nuclear weapons. The SpaceX boss apparently began to question his decision to support Starlink being used for Kyiv’s military communications when Ukraine started to use the tech in offensive operations against Russia. “How am I in this war?” Musk asked Isaacson. “Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”
What a turd
Am I understanding this correctly?
The internet service provider being used by the Ukrainian military not only knew about specific battle plans but they relayed that information to their CEO? (No wait. The article claims that military officials actually called him up and gave him the details personally. This included schematics of the submarine drones which were "impressive." Good freaking lord.)
The CEO then benevolently pulled the plug while having an emotional and heroic moment of introspection regarding the tools of war??
Both of those things sound very made up to me. The first sounds fabricated as a Macguffin to lead into #2. That's where where all the self-aggrandizing and emotional shit happens.
But if anyone thinks the first thing is plausible, I'd be interested in hearing more opinions.
I honestly don't care about the second item, but if the military is relaying plans to this known fuckwit, they probably got what they had coming.
- Yeah, the idea that Musk had such in depth knowledge of the attack sounds like horseshit to me.
  I also somewhat respect the idea of him not being happy his system is being used to directly control a weapon.
  
  Would starlink exist without defense contracts?
https://youtube.com/shorts/wx5DOjceJc?si=lGWBdHW7tPa68Wxu

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