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Musk: Ukrainian front will collapse if I switch off Starlink

www.pravda.com.ua Musk: Ukrainian front will collapse if I switch off Starlink

American billionaire Elon Musk has claimed that the Starlink system is crucial to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, suggesting that if he were to switch it off, the front line held by Ukrainian troops would collapse.

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Meanwhile, Europe is pursuing replacements for Ukraine. Obviously none as good as Starlink and there'll be a rough time in the switchover, but Musk is not the only source for this kind of service.

And in the meantime, by merely making this statement Musk has doomed Starlink to never be seriously considered again as a provider for critical services like this elsewhere in the world.
- That really will do wonders for the "don't buy American" waves that's washing over Europe at the moment.
  
  I didn't need much more of a motivation, but yeah, that really helps cementing the idea.
- But it made him feel really important for a while, which is all that matters.
- He sounds like a shitty Bond villain
  
  I'm pretty sure James Bond was tied up inside the spacesuit on that Tesla Roadster he launched in the direction of Mars.
Downvoted because we don't have to hear all the idiotic thoughts of this moron but:

I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat

Putin is a crazy fucker from the KGB. Strength in a fight is not about age, going to the gym, or all the things Elon believes. I have personally known skinny old guys walking with a cane who could kick his ass in a few seconds.

Ukraine will inevitably lose

Putin propaganda, I am not surprised. The rest of the text is the same shit.
- Don't forget Elon chickened out on the 1v1 fight with Zuckerberg. He's all talk
  
  Zuck would’ve destroyed him too. Dude actually trains in some mma discipline.
  
  He didn't chicken out, his mum just said he wasn't allowed! /j
  
  What a loser
- Putin has a black belt in Sambo, and also Judo I think. He might be getting old, but the thing about both of those martial arts is that strength isn't necessarily that important (I mean, unless you're going up against a worthy opponent obviously), but it's all about leverage and using your opponent's momentum against them.
  
  In other words, when you do it right, they kind of throw themselves... Putin would be tossing him around like a fucking ragdoll without breaking a sweat.
  
  I would love to see someone knock Elon down a few pegs... Physically, I mean. Like beat the shit out of him. At least.
  
  It's my understanding that any martial art is pretty much only good against other people doing the same art.
  
  Most people with black belts in x or y end up getting their asses handed to them by people with experience in real fights.
That fact that he made that comment would cause every other country to second guess themselves using this service. Starlink is now going to be a US service for the most part. My opinion anyway....who knows these days.
- US, Russian and Hungarian
- Anyone not already second guessing would be fools.
@MicroWave Elon Musk truly is a James Bond villain, right down to bragging about his evil master plan to take over the world.
- He's doing that supervillain thing with his fingers in the picture too.
Musk's bodyguards have the opportunity to be heroes of the world right now. They would go down in history as great men.
- When the insane Emperor Caligula was killed by his Praetorian guards and they installed Claudius in his place, the first thing the new Emperor did was execute the guards involved in the assassination.
  
  Even if everyone agreed with them at the time, it was unavoidable at the time. You couldn't have soldiers kill their emperor.
  
  Can't be having those guards kill the new emperor. Makes sense
  
  I wonder if the guards expected it or not
  
  Old claw claw was everyone's fool till he wasn't.
- Funny how Americans are all about time traveling to kill Hitler but when they have Hitler at home...
It is almost like this Nazi is working against the interest of democracy and supporting the interest of a piece of shit like Putin.
That's why you don't trust these cunts. They're fucking evil. Also, PACE motherfucker.
- Primary, alternate, contingency, emergency [comms] planning. For the uninitiated.
Broadcasting his intention like this really puts a target on his back. He should be more careful… or not, I’ve stocked up on popcorn.
We'll need to surround every Tesla store with cops. It will be like crossing a picket line to buy one, and should be protested as such.
- We need to learn from France. https://electrek.co/2025/03/03/a-dozen-tesla-cars-burned-at-store-arson-is-suspected-amid-global-protests/
  
  Fuck yeah.
And the tone he took with Sikorski when the latter reminded him that Poland is paying for a lot of Starlinks in Ukraine once more show their attitude to their (former) allies and why we need to cut those people loose and develop - or mass-deploy - self-reliant technologies like Eutelsat as quickly as we can. (I don't have the exact wording on hand but it was something akin to "Silence, little man...")
Sounds like Ukraine would be within their right to do whatever it takes to prevent such an action regardless of how many toddlers are being used as a human shield.
Interesting. So it won't happen unless musk specifically does it. So if musk is not around then it could not happen. Very good to know.
Eutelsat, now is the time for haste. Let's replace that asshole.
Ukraine will help you switch it off with fireworks.
- I would love if Ukraine shot these pieces of shit out of the sky, that would be so funny.
Elon will collapse on his knees if US subsidy on his businesses is switched off.
- Elon will collapse if an icepick is inserted between C3 and C4 vertebrae.
- Elon will collapse if you hide his ketamine bottle.
If he really believed that, it would already be off.
Since when is he an American billionaire?
- Since he became president of the US.
It would be a shame if the government relieved him of his ownership/control after discovering the company useful for national defense. It won't be Trump but I hope that's the result of the next election.

In the meantime, it looks like his businesses are circling the drain.
- the next election.
  
  I do love an optimist.
This is probably the only way he can get erections.
Time to get Ukraine a different method of communication right the fuck away. This is a threat, not a boast.
I don't think it will, but it will surely feel the effects.

This is not strictly speaking full-blown betrayal of Ukraine, it just seems that problems remaining unresolved and becoming bigger due to this war being in focus - have become bigger than Ukrainian war from their (that group) point of view.

The US is the only big power to condemn massacres of Alawites in Syria happening right now, some others have basically blamed the victims, so maybe not all they do is wrong. It's just words, but at least the right words.

If Ukraine accepts whatever peace deal they are trying to impose upon it, it'll still have much more than it would had it surrendered in 2022. In some sense it'd be a win for them. Peace works for Ukraine - their economy is less resource-based than that of Russia, thus requiring competent people and comfortable social climate, not that of war.

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