When the war was turning in Ukraine's favor and they were about to push into Russia, he shut it off and crippled their counter offensive. I remember. Fuck Elon and fuck starlink.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Which is why Starlink needs to be confiscated and managed by NATO. Somebody has to operate it, and it should be an entity who is on the side of Freedom amd Democracy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's not that easy to confiscate sattelites

[–] Mandrilleren 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Sure it is. You just confiscate the infrastructure that operates them here on earth, and order their employees to comply.

I don't think that this would be a good idea, but it is definitely doable.

[–] clutchtwopointzero 3 points 2 hours ago

When it comes to stuff like this, the USA is like a tax heaven: outside of international jurisdiction and never signed any cooperation agreement with foreign powers. The USA is the best place to run shady business right now

[–] [email protected] 152 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Not push into Russia, but attempting to retake Crimea.

[–] egrets 33 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

~~They're presumably talking about the Kursk Oblast.~~ Edit: probably not, see responses.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

IIRC that was long after that. The initial shutoff of Starlink happened around the explosions targeting the Crimean bridge and them introducing their naval drones.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly, he basically messed up the offensive to retake Crimea.

[–] Dasus 4 points 6 hours ago

Elon & Trump are Russia's greatest weapons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

Oh no I'm hearing from people that wa a technical glitch.