Elon Musk now claims it is Trump who has restricted Ukraine's use of Musk's satellite internet.
If that is true, a NATO partner is now preventing Ukraine from leveraging a key technology against the Russian invasion.
Please ask Secretary General Mark Rutte, if a NATO partner can side with the enemy and still remain a NATO partner.
I agree with you. Let's ask Nato how to remove the USA from NATO! Prompto!
@randahl it seems likely that was the Whitehouse.
@randahl
You want the truth?!
A European federation would instantly be a global superplayer on absolute eye level with the US, China & Russia.
Right now, Europe is an economic giant, but militarily and geopolitically a fragmented dwarf hanging on US security guarantees.
That's exactly what Elon Musk's Starlink throttling in Ukraine exposed: Europe watches helplessly as a single American tech billionaire and the US government single-handedly decide on the continent's defense.
@randahl not to mention there is a US president's signature on a little paper titled Budapest Memorandum
@randahl
He probably can't hear you in the depths of Trump's colon.
@randahl Musk point to a decision made by the US administration. It happens right after a call between Putin and Trump agreeing on a diesel deal and Trump threatening Ukraine and Zelenskyj.
Since we know Russia do not have excess diesel, and actually has export restrictions, I guess Putin does this to split the West. In return he gets some favors and dollars and has improved his capabilities to kill civilians and destroy energy infrastructure.
@randahl Ask who? Rutte? Puhlease. 😏
@randahl
Ha! Funny to imply little whimpering Rutte would dare say anything bad about daddy, let alone openly questioning him!
Oct 15, 2026, 7:52 AM@randahl
Seems they are talking about two different things - Starlink and Starshield. I don't even know what the latter is, but the first is owned by Musk, and he doesn't claim otherwise.
@leeloo
Starshield is communications provided by US military using Starlink satellites.
AFAIK, Starlink has been velocity gated in Ukraine all along. Starshield wasn't. Till now.
I guess Musk could order Starlink engineers to limit Starshield in various ways, but then he would be in breech of contract with DoD, probably a bad move. This seems to be a DoD decision.
@randahl
Oct 15, 2026, 8:47 AM@notsoloud @randahl
Sounds like Musk was telling the truth then.
@randahl
How to say,"I did it", without saying "I did it!"
@randahl
I trust Musk and Trump less than I can throw a medium-sized elephant.
They both do things only for themselves. This was a Fascist move: Do it and look how the world reacts. If necessary, limit the damage, blame someone else, or play dead.
Even more important provide or replace the necessary tech / info
@randahl
Mark Rutte will just grin and demonstrate how not having a spine allows him to tickle Trump's tonsils with his tongue, from the backside.