Yesterday Elon bent the knee and said he’d continue to fund free Starlink for our Ukrainian overlords who can demand free stuff from us or else.
No good deed…
Pentagon is going to pay.
They have a lot of stuff ongoing with both SpaceX and Starlink, nearly all of which is unrelated to Ukraine.
How about GPS satellite massive redundancy? Just one thing.
I read that too. Good news!
Wrong. There are no "Ukrainian overlords."
These so-called "overlords" are mere puppets of the American Deep State.
Without the Neocon Globalists' muscle backing up their demands (and calling the shots), everyone would ignore these "Ukrainian overlords."
I'm guessing the "Ukrainian overlords" cried to their Godfather in Washington, who then gave Musk an offer he can't refuse.
“Yesterday Elon bent the knee and said he’d continue to fund free Starlink for our Ukrainian overlords who can demand free stuff from us or else.”
Far as I can see, Elon’s Starlink is massively underused these days. It is drowning in unused bandwidth. It has not come into its own, which it will in a few years.
So Musk allowing Ukraine to use Starlink costs him almost nothing. What? A few millions per year? The only real cost going on is manufacturing Starlink base units and sending them to the Ukrainians. Units might raw cost $100-$200 each. So the total Musk is out is 20 million dollars at the most. My opinion.
How many billions has Musk gotten in state and Federal subsidies and freebies. A few years ago it was five billion dollars. So it is time for him to give out some freebies.