Did they ask Musk to do it?
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2024
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Who do you think suggested the idea to them? $10 says Elon directed Russia straight to a backdoor. He's been itching to see Ukraine fail this whole time, I wouldn't put it past him to directly interfere in such a way.
How exactly has he demonstrated his urge to see Ukraine fail?
EDIT: Still waiting for examples of this
He has refused to allow Ukrainian troops to use Starlink within Russian occupied regions to avoid "conflict escalation".
It would be illegal to enable it within Russian/occupied territory because of US sanctions.
He also doesn’t let Ukraine use starlink in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, according to a quick google search.
It's prohibited by U.S. sanctions to Russia.
So if a single Russian soldier enters the US, all of America must stop everything because of sanctions against Russsia?
..what? No, U.S.A is not under U.S.A. sanctions. Crimea and the rest of the occupied territories are.
Russia doesn't own the land they put troops on? What are you talking about.
I'm not the one setting the sanctions. If you have complaints you can tell it to the U.S. government.
Why? Can starlink not track which ones they give to Ukraine and not let any others work in the area? Or would that require competence that Leon Skum and company doesn't have?
You're asking the wrong person. I don't work for U.S. goverment - I don't know why the sanctions are what they are.
IDK, maybe that whole thing where he likes to selectively turn off Starlink, or maybe that time he literally went to visit Putin and then spouted some Russian Blood and soil?
Starlink wasn't enabled in Crimea in the first place because of U.S. sanctions. The author lied about this and has admitted doing so.
that is the worst excuse I have ever heard
Your claim about him "selectively turning off Starlink" is false. You're spreading misinformation.
can you fit his cock any deeper?
not like it was actually reported on
No, in fact he then came out and called for Ukraine to surrender, has actively used Starlink at the behest of Putin, while yes keeping in contact with Putin, openly repeated the Russian blood and soil propaganda calling Krima "Khrushchev's mistake", and of course as we later learned SpaceX was indeed under orders off the pentagon, making these sanctions irrelevant, not that is stopped SpaceX from selling to Russia anyway, and of course the Pentagon taking over control of Starlink above Ukraine to make sure Musk couldn't pull this shit again.
quite frankly, the only reason the man is not behind bars is that he has too much power, and too much lobbying
It's interesting the lengths Russia will go through to win this without becoming a half-decent country.
But it is half-decent, look at their metro & compare it to America's
Fucking Mussolini was said to have made the trains run on time again.
Even if that were true, that doesn't make him half decent.
Well, what about if we compare 'factories not on fire' or 'citizens lost on the battlefield in the last year (month)' or even 'incidents of explosive drone attacks'?
Are they still half decent?
Actually yeah they are half-decent, not even kidding
Why do you simp?
I don't, why do YOU simp ?
That is Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
Show me the Metro of Sotschi.. or any other second class Russian city.
Russia has literally only 2 Cities partially on western standard. I think most dictatorships manage this, even North Korea.
It's everywhere in Russia, the point is Russia is half-decent not like what the American kool-aid would have you believe, that is all there is to it No politics here, case closed
I mean that's more because America's metro fucking sucks. My country has better and I'm literally from a third world country.
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by chicago you mean new york and chicago and such. America does quite well. russia has 7 metro systems while the us has 16.
& all 16 look like toilets & those metro systems are dysfunctional considering how car-dependent US is
how are they dysfunctional? Chicagos system works quite well and dc's one was somewhat decent. Having some fancy chandeliers does not make a metro system good.
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yeah but I think its good to challenge this shit. It likes to ride off the us transit bad thing. Which is true but then wants to combine it with, pretty russia train stations, when their infrastructure, including transit, is worse than ours. Which is saying a lot. Given china/india is doing a lot with their infrastructure, russia may find itself the backwater between two modern areas.