ANALYSIS – Is Elon Musk too powerful and too mercurial for his own good and our national security? I am generally a Musk fan.
I support his stance on free speech and his tumultuous takeover of Twitter. He is also often spot-on when bashing the ‘woke mind virus.’
But when it comes to foreign policy, he is often way out of his depth. As he has been when commenting on China and Taiwan or Ukraine and Russia. And national security is not a place where you play fast and loose with things.
Words and decisions have consequences.
And that is especially so when you own the satellite network being used by a U.S. ally to fight a nuclear-armed invader.
Of course, we are talking about Musk and Starlink’s critical role in Ukraine’s defense against Russian aggression.
In early 2022, SpaceX shipped tens of thousands of Starlink terminals to Ukrainians on the front lines, giving them almost total connectivity. This quickly made it a vital military asset for Ukrainian warfighters.
And now we learn that Musk, CEO of SpaceX, intentionally manipulated the company’s Starlink satellite network to thwart a Ukrainian attack on Russia’s naval fleet near the Crimean coast.
The startling revelation appears in a new biography of the billionaire, titled “Elon Musk,” by author Walter Isaacson, due to be released next week.
According to Futurism:
Ukrainian submarine drones were about to rush a Russian fleet in a harbor but “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly…”
Meanwhile, Musk backed up his decision, citing the dangers of triggering a “mini-Pearl Harbor” and arguing that Russia may have responded to the attack with nuclear weapons.
Seriously? Since when is Elon Musk the arbiter of U.S. foreign policy or the one to decide if an enemy will use nuclear weapons? Or the one to deliberately thwart a military action by a U.S. ally relying on a private satellite network?
Apparently, that is what he has become, or at least believes he has become.
And his actions are based mostly on naivete, fear and perhaps unknown interests and agendas. Musk reportedly met with Vladimir Putin, according to the New Yorker, which may have impacted his thinking.
And Musk is clearly out of his element with all of this.
Futurism adds:
“How am I in this war?” he 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.”
Well, Elon, whether you like it or not, you are in this war via Starlink, but that doesn’t give you the right or authority to decide how the Ukrainians use your system during a war for national survival.
Please leave that to the Ukrainians or the elected leaders of the U.S. government.
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Good move Musk, Bravo call
I’d rather have Elon. maybe the smartest man in the world, making this important decision, rather than Biden…. Thank you. Elon for your bravery.
In a war we should not be involved in, whether economically or militarily; Elon Musk has every right to do what he did. His Starlink system was not earmarked for military operations. Whether he made it a point to emphasize that message to the US/Ukraine government may be another question to ponder.
Great call Elon. You might have saved the world.
Musk donated those Starlink terminals for defensive use to PREVENT the loss of lives; not to foster aggression or to enable attacks, so he was justified and right to pull the plug on the planned drone attack.
I’m also convinced that Musk has a neutral and balanced view of this conflict, which is essentially a civil war that was provoked in great part by NATO’s (and America’s) breach of the 1996 disarmament treaty with Russia together with the provinces with a Russian majority who wish to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation.
No one involved in this conflict has clean hands. The US, Russia, and the Ukraine are ALL “the bad guys” and there are no “good guys” other than the civilian populations of each of the participating nations and the countries that are just trying to provide humanitarian aid.
Attacking invaders is self defense NOT aggression!
I’m for Elon. Heaven help us, if we only have the Washington idiots to rely on.
god created his globalists and all his globalist puppets to create his hell on earth for all good people .
I applaud Elon! Warmonger Biden admin is going to get us all nuked with his BS decisions!
Relax, the globalists and their globalist puppets soros and zelensky and biden that started the ukraine war will continue to play with themself while they put 100s millions in their private bank accounts and people are killed .
So it’s OK for various airhead celebrities to move votes to DementiaJoe to support Ukraine, or to comment to tens of millions of voters what we “must” or “must not” do in this none-of-our-business war, but if some accomplished billionaire actually DOES something to reduce violence in-theater, we’re supposed to have a cow over it. Got it.
Keep in-mind: America is a SELF-GOVERNING country. Elon is one of those “selfs.” He ACTED to reduce violence. Obviously YOU are all-in on this stupid war that needs to end before it ends the last Ukrainian. Which is quite obviously Dementia Joe’s agenda – even above helping American citizens in FL or HI.