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Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships (www.thedailybeast.com)
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Original source: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 2 years ago

I mean, it's his company, nothing secret about it.

Other than that - a loitering munition requiring internet connectivity on approach to target sounds awfully stupid.

And, of course, he provided that connectivity by his own initiative with his own idea as to how it should be used in the first place.

Being given a certain kind of gift many times doesn't mean you become entitled to it.

Musk considers Russian presence in most of Ukraine aggression he wants to help foil, but a significant Ukrainian counteroffensive something he doesn't want to help. If you accept his choice in the former, you should accept it in the latter.

Or maybe not steal fucking billions of funding intended exactly for that counteroffensive to not rely on one billionaire's ideas of cool. Maybe Ukraine should do something about that pervasive corruption first, then blame Musk. With that amount of funding they should have been able to simply overwhelm Russia FFS.