• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    He’s already selling to both sides with Starlink. Who is to say Musk won’t be doing the same with this? He’s really playing up the Bond Villain stereotype.

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      8 months ago

      A lot wrong here, I’m sorry to say, and I’m really not a fan of Musk. He is absolutely not selling Starlink to be used by Russia. That would be shut down real quick. (They may be using black-market terminals, but that’s a different question.) And this new constellation will, as I understand it, be owned and operated by the US govt. Think like every single spy satellite ever: govt finds a contractor and asks them to do a thing.