Discussion

• @officejjsmart Jason Jay Smart on x

  Elon Musk's Starlink says it can no longer afford to give Ukraine 🇺🇦 free service and asks the Pentagon 🇺🇸 to pay for it. Starlink had been a game changer in the war. This comes days after Ukrainian Ambassador @MelnykAndrij told Musk to “fuck off.”

• @melaniepodolyak Melaniya Podolyak on x

  So @elonmusk is whining about losing a lot of money on Starlinks for Ukraine. Meanwhile, may I present to you snippets of my bank statements. Thousands of Ukrainians, paying his company monthly. So the question is: did you really lose more money than you earned? https://twitter.c…

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @officejjsmart @MelnykAndrij We're just following his recommendation 🤷‍♂️

• @corintxt Corin Faife on x

  Love to intervene in a high stakes geopolitical conflict then back out because someone sends me a mean tweet https://twitter.com/...

• @jrpsaki Jen Psaki on x

  When immaturity and petulance impact the good guys in a war by Elon Musk https://twitter.com/...

• @paleofuture Matt Novak on x

  85% of Starlink terminals in Ukraine were already all or partially funded by governments https://twitter.com/...

• @natashabertrand Natasha Bertrand on x

  👀 https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @kimzetter Kim Zetter on x

  This isn't true. The timing doesn't match. Musk's team asked the Pentagon to pay for Starkink in a letter sent on Sept 8. The Twitter tiff only occurred last week. Doesn't change that his response below is provocative; but the service cutoff wasn't prompted by the tiff. https://t…

• @nukestrat Hans Kristensen on x

  After CNN reporter learns SpaceX has told Pentagon to pay for Starlink service in Ukraine, the reporter apparently is blocked from viewing the reporter's Twitter account. Wonder if that's going to be Musk's “free speech” approach if he buys Twitter. https://twitter.com/... https:…

• @kyleworton Kyle Orton on x

  Elon Musk says 20,000 Starlink satellite internet terminals have been sent to #Ukraine, at a cost by the end of the year of $100m, but in September Musk's SpaceX wrote to the Pentagon saying this must end, asking DoD to take over funding the program. https://cnn.com/...

• @mattduss Matt Duss on x

  The cost is less than Musk makes in a day. https://twitter.com/...

• @davidgriscom David Griscom on x

  This boy loves govt money https://twitter.com/...

• @adamkinzinger @adamkinzinger on x

  Seems like business bait and switch, which is illegal. The DOD should not do business with such people. Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX says it can no longer pay for critical satellite services in Ukraine, asks Pentagon to pick up the tab | CNN https://www.cnn.com/...

• @koush @koush on x

  This is illustrative as to how the military industrial complex grift works: Starlink wants to bill the US $550MM for providing service through 2023. This eclipses their annual revenue from all their users on the planet. https://twitter.com/...