Elon Musk claims that Ukraine allegedly violated Starlink's terms of use and used the system on combat drones.
As someone who was inside the process at the Ministry of Defense, I can say with certainty that this is not true.
In February of this year, whitelists were introduced. Stationary terminals could be registered by both military personnel and civilians.
But for any satellite terminal to work while on the move, it had to be added to a special list and connected to the military Starshield system. Otherwise, no satellite communication terminals in Ukraine would work.
In other words, using civilian Starlink for drone missions was technically impossible. All drone missions that required satellite communication could only be carried out using Starshield.
We are very grateful to the United States and SpaceX for access to critically important satellite communications. Ukraine did not violate the terms of use.
Applebaum: If Russia wins the war, European defense spending would have to triple or quadruple, because the threat would be much greater.
Europe must give Ukraine defenses and offensive weapons to hit enough Russian targets that Moscow concludes it cannot win. 1/
“Russia invaded Ukraine, committed atrocities in the territories it occupied, and when it failed to force the government to fall or achieve its aims on the battlefield, began targeting civilians, seeking to terrorize the population into accepting Russian domination. The first Trump Administration shook off the Obama Administration’s reticence to assist and admirably sent both weapons and military trainers to help Ukraine. After the full-scale invasion in 2022, the Biden Administration orchestrated a herculean international effort to assist Ukraine, which the Trump Administration has abandoned.”-@KoriSchake@AEI https://t.co/gIODrZWi99
OMSK IS BURNING! 🔥
Ukraine has just hit the Omsk oil refinery...Russia’s largest fuel production facility, located 2500 km. away from Ukraine’s borders. This is HUGE.
Incorrect. Musk allowed Russia to use commercial Starlink for YEARS to murder Ukrainians. That largely stopped earlier this year. Ukrainian military uses the DoD Starshield variant under contract. Oddly, if you replace "Ukraine" with "Russia" in Musk's post then it's true.
A large, carefully planned Russian propaganda operation appears to be underway. Having starved people in the town of Oleshky for months, Russia, withe US help, will now "liberate" it. Read @ZarinaZabrisky below:
Trump was never sending Kushner and Witkoff to broker peace. He was having those two crooks sell our Alaskan public land and our Alaskan natural resources to the fucking Russians as if it were his.
https://t.co/uM4zdlAjQq
The Trump Administration is screaming “show me the money!”
1) Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, the UAE’s spy chief, bought 49% of Trump’s crypto company for $500 million, four days before the inauguration.
2) Next, the Sheikh just happens to be in the Trump investor group, lead by a $2 million Trump donor, bidding on $20 billion of Lukoil’s assets.
3) And in Alaska, a gas project started by Don Jr.’s college friend was secretly funded by Novatek — a Russian energy giant — through a UAE company.
You don’t have to be a PhD student to figure out what’s going on. Any one of these deals would make an alderman in Chicago blush.
As you keep paying more and more at the pump, the Trump family’s account is overflowing with billions.
Bucha. It was a genocide, recognized by everyone. They buried hundreds of people. They tortured people. We found the grave. There were, I believe, around 500 people. When we liberated those towns near Kyiv, there emerged this, you know, this kind of hatred for the Russians, right at that moment. Not even at the moment when they started the full-scale war. Back then nobody understood what it really was yet. People understood what this war was and what Putin did personally when we found those mass graves of tortured adults, children. I mean they didn't just kill them, they tortured and killed them.
When we liberated Bucha, I said, bring every journalist here. Don't touch anything, just bring the journalists. The whole world simply has to see this. Imagine finding a mass grave in the U.S. or in Britain, God forbid, with 500 tortured people, adults, kids, dogs, animals shot dead. I mean, they held hunting sprees there from military vehicles. People were running, they were shooting, just hunting, playing games. They literally just played with people, like slavery. So how, after this, can you listen to Putin? And how, after this, can you forgive?
From The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. (2/3)
Last year, Trump invited Conor McGregor to the White House… after the MMA wrestler raped a woman so brutally that her tampon had to be surgically removed.
A forensic examiner testified this in court, and McGregor was found GUILTY of rape by a 12-person jury.
Oh, AND a paramedic who examined her testified that she "had not seen a patient as bruised as her in a long time."
SOMEHOW, THIS QUALIFIED HIM FOR A TRUMP WHITE HOUSE VISIT.
Birds of a feather 🪶
Trump admin goes for the all-time record breaking level of bullshit in attemot to appease their Russian master, now saying that Ukraine kidnaps Russian kids..
Insane.