Kirk

The actual facts about SpaceX in Ukraine: - SpaceX is a private company with zero obligation to help Ukraine, yet it stepped up when governments dragged their feet. - Starlink and Starshield are not the same. Starshield is under U.S. government control. That is who made last night’s call. - Ukraine accounts for only a micro fraction of SpaceX’s revenue, while the company bears the risks of operating amid Russian attacks and geopolitical pressure. The financial return hardly justifies the exposure. SpaceX helps because it chooses to. Starshield access, meanwhile, is up to the US government. - SpaceX has every right to set limits on how its technology is used. They own it and bear consequences for it. This is while they actively collaborate to take down Russian access to Starlink that threatens to collapse Ukraine. - Throwing tantrums over not getting all your demands, including offensive use, or simply because Elon disagrees with you, while SpaceX risks its assets to help, says plenty about your character. - Demanding a company be nationalized so you can just take its product is the loudest confession that you cannot build anything. You can only steal. - Europeans should try to build their own. As a space fan, I'd celebrate it. - I don't care about the politics. But attacking the company that stepped up when it had no obligation to help is pathetic. The truth is, without Starlink saving Ukrainian communication in the early days, their reality would have severly looked very different today, and they should be grateful.