r/worldnews • u/PokeeSellerr • 5h ago
Russia/Ukraine Musk Says US Military and Trump Decide Starshield Limits as Zelensky Accuses Russia of Exploiting Outage
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/87085212
u/ux3l 5h ago
The US President then announced an energy truce on Oct. 11 that neither Kyiv nor Moscow confirmed, insisting the two sides agreed “because I said, ‘You agree.’”
Although Ukraine abided by the abrupt ceasefire announcement, Russia continued striking Ukraine nationwide. On Wednesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Trump’s energy truce was never defined, so Russia cannot be accused of breaking it.
Ukraine abided the Trump's spontaneous energy ceasefire, Russia didn't. But Ukraine is punished with deadly and unannounced restrictions.
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u/Choice-Water-4354 4h ago
It doesn't make any sense other than Trump and Musk being traitors. So when where you going to prosecute them for high treason?
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u/GerryManDarling 3h ago
This time it seems to be purely Trump. Trump controlled StarShield and the intel. Musk only control the commercial Starlink. It seems to be StarShield and intel are the problem, so Trump is the culprit.
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u/Zalyster 1h ago
How could they be prosecuted for treason in the US for being traitors to an entirely different country?
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u/TemporarySun314 5h ago
The US are a bunch of traitors.
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u/BreatheIt1 5h ago
As a US citizen, this is absolutely disgusting and I agree, we did betray Ukraine and for what? So Putin can die with some sort of ghetto legacy???
These past few years make me personally ashamed to even be an American.
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u/SouthernEdgeCase 4h ago
What was it for?! That sweet mid-term diesel…that will do nothing to help the actual issue. The only benefit to anyone is the benefit the Republicans get from the few idiots that vote R because they believe it.
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u/Ronho 4h ago
Russia doesn’t have any diesel to send us. They are using almost all of it
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u/Grave806 3h ago
A few other people have said this doesn't feel like them trying to get the diesel, it feels like a reprisal against Ukraine for taking down the bot data center. And honestly I kinda agree.
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u/mentat70 3h ago
I would guess there is a lot more going on between Putin and Trump than just the sale of a little diesel that is making Trump behave this way. Whether that involves a lot of money going to Trump and/or his family and their businesses or whether Putin has info that would be very damaging to Trump, I can’t say, but trump‘s past behavior has demonstrated that he doesn’t do anything unless he getting something in exchange.
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u/Hertzcanblowme 2h ago
Trump’s a Russian asset. This was always the plan. But now he’s worried about losing midterms so he has to speed it along.
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u/Worthyness 4h ago
Not even that much diesel. Its like a week's worth of fuel. Its hardly anything. Its not even enough to alleviate prices. Company will buy it cheap and then sell at current pricing because theyll run out by weeks end and need to increase prices again anyway
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u/mentat70 3h ago
It’s almost as if the sale of the diesel was to give a apparent reason why Trump is abandoning Ukraine and jumping on Team Russia’s side, obfuscating the real reason (hint: probably $$$$)
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u/Ambitious_Pizza_4225 2h ago
Trump’s anti-Ukraine pro-Russia statements and actions go back to 2015 during his first campaign. Remember his first impeachment related to withholding military aid from Ukraine?
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u/Positive_Doubt_9266 2h ago
It's less than a day's supply of diesel for the US, as reported on C4 UK news.
Even all the ex-republican presidents would be disgusted, spinning in their graves as the saying goes.
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u/totallyRebb 3h ago
Putins legacy will be this : Yet another insane psychopath dictator who somehow got into power and made the world worse. Because history needed more of those ..
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u/Aptosauras 2h ago
And Putin literally can not stop. If he cancelled the war and pulled all of his troops out of Ukraine he would be forcefully replaced.
This war can only be stopped by a revolution in Russia.
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u/SeniorForever5359 3h ago
No, no, no. It was because has touched little boys, and Putin has the film.
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u/sjogren 5h ago
Horrifying betrayal. It will take decades to restore trust, if ever. How can we trust future American administrations?? Absolutely rage inducing.
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u/afrophysicist 2h ago
It will take decades to restore trust, if ever.
Yeah it's going to be never. The rest of the world can't be held hostage by the stupidest voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan every 4 years, hopefully the rest of the world decouples from the US as soon as possible
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u/Nanaman 4h ago
If they’re Republicans you can’t
Democrats wouldn’t have done this
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u/LheelaSP 4h ago
Even IF there will be elections and IF they are fair and IF democrats retake all branches of government, and that's three big IFs, any trust can only be short term.
Long term trust is permanently destroyed. The rest of the world can not trust the american public to not elect another dementia patient as their dictator in the future, so any plan beyond the term of the current president will have to assume that the US can and will turn hostile towards the rest of the western world.
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u/wheatgivesmeshits 4h ago
And international partners can't trust the electorate not elect another trump. Deals between governments last decades and more. If all it takes to withdrawal from these agreements is a matter of internal politics then nobody will make good deals with the US. Regardless of who's in the Whitehouse. Trump is unilaterally breaking agreements and trust that was built up over more than a century.
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u/KungFuDuckaroo 3h ago
Are we surprised? The US has a history of fucking over its "allies" when convenient. Im from a NATO county, but anyone sane shouldn't trust the USA. In their eyes they dont have allies, they have subservient countries to be discarded when needed.
Its fine to work with them, but dumb to blindly trust them.
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u/count023 1h ago
Trump even more recently. Remember him ordering US troops to flee from Syria and leave everything behind so their close allies, the Kurds ,could get slaughtered and leave all the US based and equipment for Russia?
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u/GoodRazzmatazz4539 4h ago
US now actively supporting Russia is wild
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u/Bag_of_Meat13 3h ago
Crazy how the USSR fell only what like 35 years ago and the new country is still being led by ex-KGB.
It is fucking stupid to say the Cold War ended with the fall of the USSR.
The buzzer never went off for the Russians.
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u/Kuhn_Dog 3h ago
I'd argue we've been working with them to a certain degree SINCE the cold war ended. Its just more out in the open now and spread to more branches of government.
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u/Pickle_Emotion 3h ago
What’s it like for any Americans who lived through the Cold War, knowing America is siding with Russia.. even when Russia is helping Iran against them. It’s like a bad movie plot
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u/GoodRazzmatazz4539 3h ago
It seems like in the current era the cheapest strategy to gain power is by supporting political groups siding with you in other countries
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u/TangibleEntropy 5h ago
Time for the EU to stand up. Ban ALL Elon affiliated companies!
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u/steffan_ 5h ago
No - its just a time to get to work and build sovereign solutions...
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u/TheThousandMasks 4h ago
Or just straight up nationalize the facilities, equipment, tech - reverse engineer it and cut Elon out entirely. You don’t respect copyrights of the enemy during war.
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u/15_Redstones 4h ago
What facilities? The only stuff in the EU is ground antennas. There's nothing you can reverse engineer from that that you couldn't already get from disassembling a Starlink kit bought from the hardware store.
The important stuff like satellite manufacturing is all in the US, whose government already controls what Starlink can or cannot do.
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u/phoenix1984 2h ago
Unfortunately, it’d be pretty easy to block those base stations in response. They’d be disconnected before the raid was over. The hardware could probably be repurposed, but Europe would still need to create and launch their own satellites.
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u/Hapten 5h ago
Yea lets cut starlink/shield when Ukraine needs it most, that will show Elon.
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u/Ourtimehascome2485 5h ago
I saw on x that they turned it back on because the EU threatened to withhold the frequencies spacex uses effectively banning him from operating in the eu.
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u/TemporarySun314 5h ago
Yeah. I mean if starlink don't wanna provide service to conditions that are useful to Europe, then these frequencies should be given to providers who want to do that.
Frequency space is limited.
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u/Ourtimehascome2485 5h ago
Frankly i believe we should Favor domestic providers anyway. Relying on American tech is a liability
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u/Theratchetnclank 4h ago
EU and UK both have plans for their own "Starlink" like low orbit satellites.
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u/Not-TheNSA 4h ago
As an American. I agree with you! I’m so sick of American corporations having a stranglehold on every aspect of the financial market. Give them something to compete against and maybe they’ll actually have to start creating quality products at competitive prices instead of just having a global monopoly on everything. They’ve gotten way too comfortable not having to compete for their customers and it’s killing the economy both here in the states and abroad.
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u/Better_Cauliflower63 5h ago
??? I hate to ask for the source from X.... and frankly many subreddits do not allow these links.
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u/ThatTryHardAsian 5h ago
I doubt that true. The US military operate the Starshield the military version of starlink. SpaceX doesn’t control manage that over the military assets.
Unless Ukraine was still using starlink, which they shouldn’t be for beside communication?
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u/Ugliest_weenie 5h ago
It's a liability at this point
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u/arcadeenthusiast8245 5h ago
Ukraine will fall without starlink. The better option is to keep using starlink, but accelerate development into an alternative that isn't beholden to the US.
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u/Ugliest_weenie 4h ago
Agreed.
But the original comment was about cutting off Starlink/Twitter/Tesla from the EU.
Which needs to happen immediately
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u/IndividualSkill3432 5h ago
At this point its a hugely useful tool for the Middle Strike campaign and for internal anti drone interceptors.
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u/waiting4singularity 4h ago
He wont like it if tesla loses its operation permits for its cars in europe.
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u/Far_Car430 3h ago
Why blame Elon for this? It’s fucking Agent Krasnov and its sycophants who did this.
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u/Reclusiarc 2h ago
So the US government made this decision? In fact, the technology to do this wouldn't exist if it wasn't for his companies?
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u/OxbridgeDingoBaby 56m ago edited 52m ago
Did you even read the article? Musk explicitly said Starshield actions are run and thus ultimately decided by the US government, going so far as to say that the ultimate decision maker is even POTUS when it comes to Starshield.
Comments like yours must be Russian bot farms honestly. You want Starlink (or Starshield) removed from Ukraine when it’s been the single biggest reason they’ve been able to handle Russia its ass. Even Fedorov, today no less, thanked Musk for the “unbelievable support” he has provided to Ukraine and his forces. The only reason you’d want Starshield access removed, even temporarily, is because you want to give Russia an advantage.
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u/Take_the_elevator 2h ago
I wish things were different. The Tesla Model Y has been among the top three best-selling EVs for the past two quarters, which is quite disappointing to me since I don't believe it's the best EV available.
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u/CraigJay 2h ago
“Yeah let’s take away Ukraine’s ability to defend itself” - totally not Russian propaganda-spreading bot
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u/18MazdaCX5 5h ago
Trump decides the limits for Musk's equipment in Ukraine and Musk decides our elections. Seems about right.
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u/OneNormalBloke 5h ago
Tramp and elon playing pass-the-parcel with Ukrainian lives.
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u/danieljai 5h ago
These people are completely morally bankrupt, which is entirely on brand for them.
It also speaks volumes about the character of the supporters who continue to stand behind them during their speeches.
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u/rikeoliveira 5h ago
This is what really gets me. They are playing with people's lives and suffering. This corruption and the lies are not restricted to the US economy, or allies economy (and livelihood), they are not passively killing people, they are actively contributing to Ukranian's deaths. They are actively helping Russia be successful on hiring Ukranian civil infrastructure, and preventing Ukraine to defend theirselves and/or hitting back.
The US is funding and helping a dictatorship invading a sovereign country. What a fucking disgrace.
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u/VermicelliHorror2332 4h ago
The US is funding and helping a dictatorship invading a sovereign country. What a fucking disgrace.
What we knew as the USA is dead. Everyone should call it what it is, DOA, the Disunited Oblast of America. It's a region of Russia, under Putin's control.
They're Putin's cumsock now. Traitors to humanity.
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u/jonknowzeverything 3h ago
Use of spacex for military purposes need to be authorized by us govt. It's not musks call. This is not about using starlink for civilian use
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u/WhatANoob2025 4h ago
Poland pays for Ukraine's starlink, yet the US admin decides?
All of them - musk, trump, kegseth belong in front of a warcrime tribunal.
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u/Bag_of_Meat13 4h ago
So we're basically betraying NATO, the rest of our allies, and even Ukraine....who became it's own state from the USSR...for Russia, who's currently being led by ex-KGB.
They won.
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u/Submittextpost 2h ago
Ukraine was it’s own state before USSR too btw, but yeah USA is siding with most prolific occupier in Eastern Europe.
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u/Relevant-Ad2254 2h ago
They did a lot of damage but they didn’t win. We still have a chance to throw Trump and other Russian assets out
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u/Proof_Side_5667 1h ago
You forgot that they’re also betraying the American soldiers who died in Iranian strikes made possible by the Russian supplied targeting data.
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u/Alive-Teaching-9299 2h ago
Yes , but Russia sabotaged itself with Ukraine war. China is very amused
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u/EpsteinFile_01 5h ago
There was talk of backup European alternatives if Starlink was completely pulled. They would be worse, but it's something.
How about we start deploying them NOW alongside Starlink, as a test, fix any issues that will arise and make it as good as possible. Instead of waiting for when it's suddenly needed and Ukraine goes dark for a month
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u/probablypoo 4h ago
I’m gonna guess that the reason the European alternative is worse is because of the limited number of satelites compared to star link. You can’t really fix that with field testing.
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u/RT-LAMP 3h ago edited 1h ago
backup European alternatives if Starlink
All you'll get is IRIS2, which when complete in 2032 will have less bandwidth than SpaceX has averaged launching each week for the past few years, and 1/5th of the bandwidth that SpaceX is willing to throw away on a suborbital test flight of Starship.
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u/Reasonable-Brief306 5h ago
Judging by reports from Ukrainian analysts they are saying Starshield is the problem. Elon doesn’t have control over Starshield only the DoD and the Pentagon do. As much as I like to shit on Elon it does really seem that this was a Trump move to try and pressure Ukraine, especially since a lot of their interceptor drones are the main ones affected.
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u/Riskyfour 5h ago
Musk the guy that has regular calls with Putin says don't blame me blame the politician I bribed to do the thing I want.
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u/TemporarySun314 5h ago
Let's not pretend like the US government would not hate ukraine all on their own. They don't need musks help for that...
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u/Riskyfour 5h ago
The US government has historically been friendly with Ukraine. This administration is just pro putin and pro russia. It wasn't till Trump and Musk became such mask off that Ukraine has been treated like this.
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u/EdiblePeasant 5h ago
It seems this administration doesn't even seem to care if Trump was absent from the Victory Day celebrations last year. Trump, Xi, Putin, and KJU should have been together that day. If Trump wasn't invited, was that a sign of disrespect from those leaders' part?
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u/raerae1991 4h ago
No, not the government, because Congress keeps passing bipartisan bills to fund Ukraine. It’s Trump who is keep blocking things
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u/TemporarySun314 4h ago
He is the branch of government that actually do stuff.
And both your legislative and judicial branch are failing to hold Trump responsible.
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u/NESTEA-69 5h ago
it's easy to blame one person but the US peope chose Trump twice. Nobody forced them to vote for Trump
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u/CraigJay 2h ago
You’re literally parroting Russian propaganda in suggesting that the person supplying Ukraine’s key ability to defend itself is compromised by Russia
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u/SigSweet 3h ago
The traitorous US oligarchs are big mad about the bot farm attack. Look at how flagranty they flaunt it at us.
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u/ASlockOfFeagulls 2h ago
What I think happened with Starlink/shield: Trump told Pete Hegseth to punish Zelensky for "disobeying" him, and Hegseth dutifully fucked with Ukraine's access to Starshield. And for my fellow Americans this is why Trump will never get rid of Hegseth no matter how drunk, incompetent and unprofessional he becomes, and no matter how much Hegseth's public approval tanks. Hegseth is a true believer white Christian nationalist, and he is more than happy to help facilitate Trump's fascist dreams
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u/physicsdeity1 5h ago
When are Americans going to do something about this administration.
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u/Timoroader 4h ago
They are mildly complaining on the internet.
Don´t act as they are not doing anything!
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u/meadeb 3h ago
Give em a break. One of them told me they have a job so it’s hard. Another one has a kid.
People don’t realise the struggles they’re having to overcome before they can think about properly protesting.
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u/EvilRyss 3h ago
I'm not sure their is anything they can do, besides start a civil war at this point. Midterms are IMO the last off ramp for avoiding that. But I'm honestly not sure they haven't already been decided, and the election is just for show, so they can pretend it's all legit.
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u/Swiftax3 3h ago
People are absolutely waiting for the midterms. Should they? Probably not, but its being turned into a barometer for whether we're still a democracy or not. Either the democrats win and people put down their guard and let them try and fight, or they lose and we enter "the cool zone".
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u/Square-Location-5310 3h ago edited 2h ago
This is conspiracy peddling. The elections are not pre decided, to say that they might be, is to say exactly what trump says. You’re echoing trump.
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u/Suitable-Display-410 2h ago edited 2h ago
You mean like in 2020, when he talked about how Dems would try to steal the election and then he tried to steal it?
Are you aware of the tactic accusation-in-a-mirror?
Do you think they put all of those election deniers into local election boards for fun?
The guy already tried to steal a presidential election ffs, they had a sophisticated plan all set up, and Pence refused to go along with it. Did you forget that? Do you think "he learned from his mistakes" like Susan Collins?
And do those people and their accomplices in business behave as if they fear that there will ever be accountability for their crimes?
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u/Square-Location-5310 2h ago
You’re describing the terrible person that is trump. There is a massive gap between trump the delusional person and the robustness of the American electoral system. You’ve said nothing that diminishes the robustness of the electoral system. So what are you saying?
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u/ManWhoSoldTheWorld01 2h ago
The only thing that motivates Americans to do anything is gas prices. They don't care about things like this and to make connections between this and gas prices is too much to ask.
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u/wingnuta72 1h ago
They aren't.
For all the bluster on Reddit, Americans voted in Trump twice. Countless times their constitution has been broken and laws ignored by this administration all with no consequences.
Americans have given up on their country.
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u/poppin-n-sailin 2h ago
Never. The most common thing they say is that there is nothing they can do. That is pure bullshit. They're just disorganized and divided and have no desire to change that. and while they also claim the election was stolen and that the next one will be too, they still think all they have to do is wait and vote in the midterms, and then just keep sucking it up and waiting for the next presidential election and then it will be over and fixed. they're all well propagandized and complacent people and serve their corporate and private equity ruling class regardless of political lean.
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u/Top_Tip3267 1h ago
Bro what do you want me to do? I'm surrounded by farms for hours you want me to go yell at a cow? The US is massive
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u/Conscious-Start-4514 1h ago
Europeans just don't get it. France is smaller than Texas with a 1/5 the population of the US. A lot easier to protest when you live on top of each other in a smaller geographical area. Not to mention the fact that civilians armed with petty rifles are no match for the might of the US military. Easy to suggest throwing others into a meat grinder from the comfort of your home abroad.
Still, they aren't entirely off base. There is a good deal of complacency among us Americans. Not to mention so much division among the populace. 30% of the country would actively cheer the government mowing down their neighbors. They cheered when Trump joked about Iran nuking California.
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u/TheGriffin5 1h ago
Respectfully, would you be willing to do the shit you are implying. This isnt a pixar movie where if we all join hands and sing things will be better. You are expecting every american to risk their lives, their families lives, and in cases like mine lifelong torture, for something that as it stands isnt an immediate threat to our lives. It absolutely sucks, but you are calling people cowards for not wanting to risk their own lives and families lives/livelihoods.
Expecting people to risk death/torture for something that could be fixed in 2 months or years is dystopian as fuck.
Our gov fucking sucks, but it doesn’t suck enough for me to be willing to kill myself to have a tiny chance at changing things.
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u/cienfuegos2607 48m ago
Your military is the biggest, the most expensive, the most equipped and the most experienced in the world. No one out here can do anything. You feel threatened because you are alone. C'mon, you guys have to organize yourselves. In anything.
You have the most evil person in charge of the the deadliest weapons. You have to do something because that's the burden to have the nukes.
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u/Key-Cry-8570 1h ago
Your anti-American rhetoric and belief that our elections are a sham is practically word for word what Russian troll accounts post day after day.
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u/goochy_86 2h ago
What do you want us to do man? This site is monitored and you want people to what openly admit to stockpiling weapons and ammo? Preparing to fight back, to kill? The people who want to do more than just vote exist Im sure, and I doubt they're dumb enough to talk about it in an open forum like this.
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u/harryx67 5h ago edited 5h ago
Putin-russia effectively may have a deal with the Trump-US to do exactly what Trump‘s doing for both his election and Putin‘s war machine. Diesel?
It‘s too obvious and fits the recent news on their call…
The MAGA cult is pretty dangerous if you ask me…
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u/jhill515 5h ago
Ahh, the "Don't blame me, blame Trump!.. And ignore the fact that Putin is a good friend too," tactic. Classic!
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u/Dangerous_Seaweed601 4h ago
Impeach the motherfucker, or remove him by other means (and I leave interpretation of that up to the reader)
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u/trainwrecktragedy 5h ago
November can't come soon enough!
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u/TemporarySun314 5h ago
Nothing will change then.
Trump will still president until 2028.
And Americans are probably stupid enough to reelectect him once again 4 years later. Or at very least Vance...
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u/ux3l 5h ago
As I understood American voters, Trump was elected (among other reasons) because people's lives got worse under Biden. Biden was also elected because how Trump reacted to the Covid pandemic.
Now lives are getting way worse because of Trump's own fuck-ups, so I'm optimistic that the next president will be a Democrat.
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u/psioniclizard 5h ago
It will be close enough in 2028 to know in 4 years time it will all happen again.
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u/SpadessVR 4h ago
The first warning was the Sieg Heil salute Musk did. The second is betraying Ukraine. What’s next you may ask.
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u/den773 1h ago
Out in the suburbs, I have no idea what to do. I vote. I don’t have any money, I don’t have any power. I do not recognize this place as the country I grew up in. People saying “Make America Great Again” are just the worst kind of people. We have clearly become the bad evil country to the rest of the world. ICE is just the KKK. We are racist, misogynistic, greedy, belligerent, and dumb af. I haven’t got any idea why anyone would think this country is “GREAT AGAIN”
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u/MonachopsisWriter 30m ago
You can build power with those around you who also care and want things to change for similar reasons you do
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u/NOODL3 3h ago
"Starlink is a commercial service owned and controlled by SpaceX. Usage of Starlink is limited to civilian or defensive activities and cannot be used for offensive military action, as doing so would be inappropriate for a commercial company,” Musk said.
If only there were a hundred-plus years of precedent of dozens (hundreds?) of American companies with civilian/commercial operations that also produce trillions of dollars worth of war materiel for offensive operations.
Also, is Grok not both a commercial service and used by the Pentagon for offensive operations?
Not to mention that literally any and everything Ukraine does in this war is (technically) defensive. What a stupid crock of shit.
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u/TheWellington89 5h ago
This is what you get when you put your trust in these conmen. When you dont do exactly what they want, they immediatly betray you
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u/Germfreecandy 4h ago
This shit makes me sick to my core. Ukraine is already struggling, and I‘ve had a bad feeling about this conflict since 2024 (being more and more pessimistic that Russia has the upper hand). Ukraine cannot afford this shit.
Trump and Elon should be tried for treason. The limited Ukrainian manpower is dying because of these absolutely moronic decisions. I will never forgive USA for appointing Trump.
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u/IdiotsAllTheWayDown 4h ago
EU really needs to up the game. The US wants isolation, let them have it.
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u/Worth_Dark_9091 3h ago
So the US took them down to aid Russia's attack then? Because those are the implications of the statement Musk is making.
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u/CaliforniaNavyDude 1h ago
It's reprisal for taking out the bot server farms. It hurt MAGA at a critical time and so this is the revenge. Also, Putin probably had a whisper, since the drones have proven to be potentially very damaging.
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u/thatsthefactsjack 46m ago
So, is Musk saying the United States now owns Starlink as a government owned/tax payor asset???
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u/quickdraw9 4h ago
It doesn't matter. Musk has been spending more money than some nations GDP to get far right extremists elected across the world. He doesn't get to pretend he isn't complicit.
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u/backflash 4h ago
Has Starlink been nationalized? Did I miss something?
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u/Emotional-Buy1932 4h ago
Starshield is a special network controlled by US military not Starlink. It is distinct from starlink's commercial systems.
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u/buzzsawjoe 3h ago
The article sez Ukraine’s former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said Starlink’s connectivity at speeds of up to 160 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour) is being restored. “Removing Starshield’s speed limit entirely is now critical for Ukraine’s defense,”
The Guardian had a similar article, with the same wierd number: "Terminals travelling at more than 100mph and using a version of Starlink for the military and other national security agencies suddenly lost connectivity, said Serhiy Beskrestnov, in what appeared to be a targeted outage meant to disrupt military operations."
Does anyone have any idea what these are? Satellites in low earth orbit pass overhead at 17500 mph. If these "terminals" are electronic packages strapped to rabbits, those can only run 35 to 45 mph, and that only in short bursts.
Or is this just stupidity? I wonder if reporters think radio messages travel at 100 mph.
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u/__O_o_______ 3h ago
I think it’s the maximum speed capable of the ground based receiver and transmitter, although specifically why I’m not sure if it’s a software, hardware limitation. Consumer transmitters have a “cap” of moving 100mpg or less or something like that.
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u/No_Accountant3232 2h ago
It's to prevent fast movers from using star link for guidance systems.
It's an arbitrary limit well below it's capabilities.
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u/InvestigatorLow3076 3h ago
A starlink reciever normally gets refused service from the system when the system detects the reciever is moving. You pay extra for a non-static account if you want to watch netflix while driving your camper van, but then there still is a maximum speed at which the system refuses communication. 160 kmph appearently, to prevent use in weapon systems. That’s where starshield comes in?
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u/Sea_Hold_2881 4h ago
When Biden was still around, the US government realized that it could not have its foreign policy set by a private corporation so they negotiated control over some part of starlink resources. This is useful to Musk because it gives him plausible deniability to avoid facing sanctions in other countries.
IOW - this was 100% a Trump decision in the end. If Trump wanted starlink to continue it would have continued.
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u/nutationsf 4h ago
Starshield is the separate military starlink
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u/backflash 4h ago
Ah, thanks for the explanation!
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u/Ashmizen 2h ago
Yeah the whole point of starshield was to take the decision out of a civilian (Elon’s) hands. Elon got a lot of backlash for the decision to geo-zone
Starlink to blacklist Russian controlled territory so Russians can’t use it. This made sense originally when both sides had civilian starlink, but Ukrainian generals were surprised it stopped working when they went on an offensive deep into Russian territory and blamed Elon for “turning off starlink”.So basically it’s in the US military’s best interest to control it, and it’s in Elon’s best interest to not control it since he will get backlash if he makes the wrong decisions.
Also, starshield meant SpaceX got paid for it (from the US government, not Ukraine) when previously Elon had made civilian Starlink free for Ukraine use.
Elon got a lot of backlash for essentially donating Starlink for Ukraine use and then not updating the geo fencing. Without classified military intelligence he didn’t really have the data to do so anyway, so starshield was better for everyone involved.
That said, we can see that ultimately if the US government wants to throttle support, it’s entirely in their hands now.
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u/Wild_Armadillo_1709 3h ago
Fuck trump. Fuck musk.
They are in it for the money and there are zero consequences bar lining their own pockets.
America is sick if this is what it aspires to.
Suffering for profit is basically the projection right now, just so appalled that it’s so blatant and obvious.
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u/quats555 5h ago
This needs to be repeated far and wide.
Starlink is unreliable because any use, privacy, or security depends entirely on an unstable billionaire’s whim.
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u/Darromear 4h ago
The irony is that one of the main reasons they set up Starshield under the DoD is because Musk fucked around with Ukraine's internet connections before. This was supposed to help prevent these shenanigans.
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u/grchelp2018 3h ago
starlink was always meant for civilian uses only. there are legal reasons why you don't want to allow that. Plus there is also extra work involved in it. Starshield allows the US govt to do whatever they want without spacex permissions and they can also include all kinds of classified stuff that spacex will not put on their civilian sats.
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u/ABobby077 3h ago
I wonder how long before some other similar competing low earth orbit satellite secure internet provider(s) are going to start competing with Starlink(???)
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u/mfb- 2h ago
OneWeb (UK/France/India owned) is operational but with a much smaller number of satellites. They are more focused on aviation and other well-paying customers, but in principle they could be an alternative.
Amazon's Leo should start initial service next year, but that would face the same problem Starlink has. If it works on missiles then it counts as a weapon system that you cannot export it easily. Amazon would also need some agreement with the US government and give that government control over its use on weapons. If the US government restricts the military version of Starlink, it could equally restrict the military version of Leo.
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u/DoctorOctagonapus 3h ago
Musk publicly throwing Trump under a bus wasn't something I expected to read today.
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u/Tyler_Durden69420 3h ago
It was okay for Zelenskyy to bomb Russia, but now that they bombed the bot factory that was helping Trump, he has apparently gone too far.
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u/post_scripted 2h ago
There is a lesson in here for Canada, in particular, why they should not purchase the F35. One day the US might decide they are no longer able to do be used.
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u/PalmovyyKozak 2h ago
Desperate orangutan is panicking about losing election and makes the situation even worse for him.
After the election it won't stop. He will scream about rigged election and blame everyone around about this. So we may expect sanctions against Ukraine instead of russia.
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u/RockettSocks42 1h ago
Trump and Musk are traitors. Our president sided with a known evil madman dictator.
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u/MyvaJynaherz 50m ago
It's odd that a private citizen owns something so influential in international conflict. A weird side-effect of how powerful modern tech has grown.
Prior centuries would have seen this kind of tech nationalized and controlled due to its ability to serve in such a broad capacity. Now we have to debate whether it's ethical to either allow foreign war-fighters to use the network to coordinate offensive action, or disable service and disproportionately hinder one side of an active conflict.
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u/hyperiongate 4h ago
If this is true...Trump is knowingly taking action to help Purin win the war. Treason.
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u/Aethernath 4h ago
US love affair with dictatorships. Well, that’s your future. Don’t expect help from the outside since you fucked everyone over already.
Good luck, we’re looking forward to your future civil war. Please leave up the public betting platforms so we can all profit off of the war.
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u/Raven_Photography 4h ago
Bullshit. Musk is a coward and a traitor. The quicker he’s sentenced and removed from human contact the better it will be for everyone on earth.
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u/January-Embers-1121 4h ago
As an American and a Ukrainian, all I can say about this is that I feel America and Ukraine are at war now. Not that Im ignoring the past betrayals but this just, I feel it changes everything and makes me incredibly, incredibly weary. What really is to stop Trump from doing something extreme if it distracts from his failures?
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u/Franc000 3h ago
The other question nobody seems to be asking is how did Russia know when to strike?
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u/Relative_Average758 2h ago
Sexual predators with psychopathic tendencies are not known for publicly taking responsibility for their own actions.
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u/holierthanthou2 2h ago
How long do you think Ukraine would have lasted without Starlink? Serious question. Elon has been a net postive for Ukraine.
Edit: Slava Ukraini
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u/IndividualSkill3432 5h ago
Via Illia Pomonorenko via social media. Looks like Hegseth is the one responsible for this right now.