SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk reportedly caused a geopolitical crisis last year, when Ukrainian forces—which have relied heavily on the company’s Starlink satellite communications—were on the verge of striking Russian naval vessels off the coast of Crimea with submersible drones. Concerned that the attack would provoke Russia into using nuclear weapons, Musk unilaterally opted to sever the submarines’ satellite connection, throwing a wrench in the entire assault.
The incident—shared by CNN based on an adapted excerpt from an upcoming book by Walter Isaacson—demonstrates Musk’s increasing unwillingness to lend his satellite network to offensive maneuvers waged by Ukraine. “How am I in this war?” “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.”
After foiling the attack, Musk reportedly received a desperate text from a Ukrainian deputy prime minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, who asked that Musk reinstate the Starlink connection to the drones. “I just want you—the person who is changing the world through technology—to know this,” Fedorov wrote. But Musk refused to reverse course, telling Fedorov that Ukraine “is now going too far and inviting strategic defeat.”
Apparently he was worried that the assault would provoke nuclear war. Musk showing actual thought for the first time in ever.
Apparently he was worried that the assault would provoke nuclear war. Musk showing actual thought for the first time in ever.
When an actual fascist in Musk doesn’t want nuclear war but your average wine cave warrior liberal does.
ive been seeing the term “wine cave” a lot recently, can you tell me what it means?
It’s used to mock rich out of touch bourgeois neoliberals like him.
Aaah ok I thought there mightve been something deeper about it. Thanks 👍
The wine cave in question:
Always remember who these people are. They hide it, but they don’t live like us. Keep it in mind especially when they’re hand-wringing about better rights for marginalised people or demanding that feeding or housing the homeless be means tested behind 50 different indecipherable rules to make it harder.
It’s a rich person thing. Rich libs build a wine cave kind of like how rich Chuds build bunkers
Musk isn’t a fascist he’s a racist idiot so I understand the confusion but there’s more to fascism than just that
I’m as far from a Musk fan as you can get, but this whole narrative of him causing serious damage to the Ukrainian effort because of Starlink smells like western media establishing a fall guy to point to for when the effort ultimately fails. The US gov has subsidized ALL of his businesses so heavily, if Starlink were really that valuable to the operation, they would have forced his hand one way or the other. I was equally as skeptical when they touted Starlinks value in the very beginning of the dispute.
Holy fuck I’d love it if they blamed it all on musk that’d be so funny
If Biden had Musk strung up for treason or whatever, I’d think about voting for him for a half second
I’ll get all communists I know to vote for Biden if he promises to execute Elon Musk.
I’m not trusting any Biden promises. He needs to actually execute Elon before I consider voting for him.
Holy shit I would knock on doors for him
Yeah, weren’t they hailing it as the saving grace for the efforts at the beginning? Imo they are about to start backtracking hard and admitting defeat and are getting all the scapegoats lines up.
lol lmao. You’re welcome
I’m just a simple communist, but maybe if you don’t want critical infrastructure during wartime to go away on the whims of a billionaire, maybe you shouldn’t entrust said infrastructure to free market capitalism?
let the slava brains and the bazinga brains fight
How dare he not let us have nuclear war.
Can we have nuclear war outside today?
So first it was the tricksy russkies using secret technologies such as “minefields”, and that was why the offensive was failing. Now it’s Musk shutting off his ego project. What’s next? Indian curse? Anything to deflect the blame from the filth in Pentagon and white house
Next up is a video of Zelensky saying “Assad must go”
A book written by the fucking ex-CEO of CNN states that a drone went offline last year and it’s Elon’s fault. There’s no evidence, no names, no story, just waffle and assertions. This is just distracting noise based on nothing.
Oh good, if they’re running pieces like this with evidence as flimsy as that, then he’s definitely being viewed as a liability and is likely to have something funny happen to him.
Agreed, it has all the marks of a little inter-bourgeois spat.
It is deeply unsettling that a random doofus oligarch can just hugely impact a war like that, someone needs to fix this (change the news so I don’t have to hear about it)
Very cool that this satellite communications network that can make the difference between life and death of hundreds of people is owned and controlled by a man with the intellectual capabilities of an actual hamster
Critical support to billionaires for their constant work at undermining themselves
I don’t think we can credit billionaires in general, its almost exclusively musk who’s telling on himself and all billionaires, very loudly
He may well be in danger of assassination, but I think the call is coming from inside the house
When can we get back to political assassinations being a thing
its been too long.
So can we convince libs that elon is a traitor and should be executed
No whatever he did is because he’s smart and rich and you’re just hating because you’re poor and stupid.
Don’t waste your time trying to lead the horse to water; it’s happy to drink the sand.
I’d like to know how often the Ukrainian military briefs Musk on their upcoming attacks.
for what possible reason would you not want a petulant man who is basically developmentally a child and couldn’t shut up to save his life involved in military briefs
So that they get access to starlink. Gotta stroke his ego for that.
People sucking up to him on Twitter got him to spend 40 billion dollars to stroke his own ego. Musk is very easily manipulated.
