Reality feels as if it has been yanked from under my feet. Everything had inverted, like light in a camera obscura.
Elon Musk's SpaceX Gets US Contract to Expand Ukraine’s Access to Starshield

SpaceX received a Pentagon contract to expand Ukraine’s access to a more secure, militarized version of its Starlink satellite network, deepening the company’s involvement in the conflict despite founder Elon Musk’s ambivalence over the war.

Bloomberg
@Npars01 @iryna I'm glad I'm seeing other people using the word shakedown - that's exactly how all the news about Trump and Ukraine sounds to me. Incredibly shameless to tie peace to economics so brazenly.

@iryna There are alternatives to starlink.

The British don't use it. The one good thing Boris Johnson did was not sign up for vital communication dependency on Musk.

Putin and Trump are too corrupt and stupid to succeed in the long run.

@iryna time for #space #satellite based #alternative #internet #services to come online

"#EU plans to commence the IRIS² project in the 2020s.

"China As of 2023, China is in the process of developing its own, state-owned, satellite internet constellation, run by Chinasat."

"India’s main offerings in the space is Oneweb and JioSpaceFiber.[21] And is as of 2023, entertaining licenses for Starlink and Project Kuiper."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Internet_access

Satellite Internet access - Wikipedia

@iryna This is also clear reason why the world must develop an alternative to Musk's Starlink

There's too much dependence on the evil unstable sociopath

@iryna I hate that they said 'US threatens to cut off starlink' when they meant to say 'Elon Musk' because he's already threatens to shut it off before because he wanted more money for a thing he was already paid for... Now he wants even more for a thing that's already been paid for
@kwayk42 @iryna From where I’m sitting, seeing Musk talking to the press standing in the Oval office, Musk and US policy are the same thing at the moment.
@iryna other satellite internet providers are all shit, time to bring back ham radio.

@iryna
This is biblically bad Karma.

Do not stand anywhere near these folks.

@iryna If they do that, I don’t think people will be satisfied with simply protesting at Tesla locations.