The billlionaire allegedly feared the strike on Crimea could trigger nuclear war.
The man is an enemy of the west and should be treated as such
Billionaire dipshit doesn’t understand why he can’t order everyone to do what he wants. People die.
- Nationalize SpaceX now
- Tax Billionaires at 90% now
- Begin the investigation of Musk’s inevitable and obvious tax fraud
This “I just wanted peace (for Putin)” shit is another item too far. Way too far.
this is treason tbh. Aid and comfort to enemies. How many bodies we gonna wait for?
Technically - technically - the US has not declared war and so it is not.
Ethically, morally, obviously - oh yeah.
“How did I end up in the war” huh? I thought this guy was supposed to be smart, but he doesn’t get how we innovate in war with whatever best tools are available to us?
Man is dumber than a rock. At least a rock is smart enough to do nothing. Musk always makes the worst decision possible of his options.
Musk is a parable to many characters in atlas falls, all the producers stopped helping him
He may or may not be dumb. He is an enemy agent.
Ah Pug, you always have a way with words.
Wow directly intervening in a foreign war. He’s insane.
“Narcissistic personality disorder”
I see an empty post here, anyone else?
It’s a screenshot of a mastodon post saying
If you listen closely to the Starlink satalites as they go overhead, you can hear them cry out “nationalize meeeeeeee”
Lemmy cannot show pictures from Mastodon and Kbin for some reason.
Well that sucks
What a turd
Elon Musk secretly ordered SpaceX engineers to switch off the Starlink satellite communications network near the coast of occupied Crimea in order to thwart a Ukrainian surprise attack on Russia’s naval fleet, according to a report. The incident last year is reported in Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography of the billionaire titled Elon Musk. With the comms down, the Ukrainian submarine drones packed with explosives “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes, according to CNN. Musk was reportedly motivated to foil the attack out of concern that a strike on Crimea would constitute a “mini-Pearl Harbor” and lead to Russia retaliating with nuclear weapons. The SpaceX boss apparently began to question his decision to support Starlink being used for Kyiv’s military communications when Ukraine started to use the tech in offensive operations against Russia. “How am I in this war?” Musk asked Isaacson. “Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”
If he weren’t so incredibly suspicious when it comes to Russian influence, that would be a really genuine seeming explanation.
Yet another reason that we shouldn’t have billionaires.
Am I understanding this correctly?
- The internet service provider being used by the Ukrainian military not only knew about specific battle plans but they relayed that information to their CEO? (No wait. The article claims that military officials actually called him up and gave him the details personally. This included schematics of the submarine drones which were “impressive.” Good freaking lord.)
- The CEO then benevolently pulled the plug while having an emotional and heroic moment of introspection regarding the tools of war??
Both of those things sound very made up to me. The first sounds fabricated as a Macguffin to lead into #2. That’s where where all the self-aggrandizing and emotional shit happens.
But if anyone thinks the first thing is plausible, I’d be interested in hearing more opinions.
I honestly don’t care about the second item, but if the military is relaying plans to this known fuckwit, they probably got what they had coming.
Yeah, the idea that Musk had such in depth knowledge of the attack sounds like horseshit to me.
I also somewhat respect the idea of him not being happy his system is being used to directly control a weapon.
Would starlink exist without defense contracts?
