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The best part is this move further cements how unstable Musk is, and probably makes the pentagon realize he has the ability to fuck with military applications
He very well could have caused the government to start discussing plans to nationalize Starlink
I've been seeing this a lot, but do they have a particular reason they would be able to nationalize starlink? Was there some sort of contract or investment that gives them stakes in it?
It'd be an extreme action. But during wartime, USA has the right to nationalize our companies in the name of defense.
I'm not particularly keen on the details, you'd probably have to ask a lawyer over these details. But USA nationalized companies like GM during the 2008 crisis, for an example. So we don't actually have to go back too far into history to see this kind of extreme action being taken. Single decades, not even multiple decades.
I dunno if nationalizing Starlink makes the best sense... yet. At a minimum, this has proven that Starlink is an unreliable partner as a wartime satellite internet provider however. Ideally, we can just rebuild our investments in other companies / alternative satellites and avoid SpaceX as a peg in our defense plan.