Ukraine will help you switch it off with fireworks.

I don’t think it will, but it will surely feel the effects.

This is not strictly speaking full-blown betrayal of Ukraine, it just seems that problems remaining unresolved and becoming bigger due to this war being in focus - have become bigger than Ukrainian war from their (that group) point of view.

The US is the only big power to condemn massacres of Alawites in Syria happening right now, some others have basically blamed the victims, so maybe not all they do is wrong. It’s just words, but at least the right words.

If Ukraine accepts whatever peace deal they are trying to impose upon it, it’ll still have much more than it would had it surrendered in 2022. In some sense it’d be a win for them. Peace works for Ukraine - their economy is less resource-based than that of Russia, thus requiring competent people and comfortable social climate, not that of war.

We’ll need to surround every Tesla store with cops. It will be like crossing a picket line to buy one, and should be protested as such.

Interesting. So it won’t happen unless musk specifically does it. So if musk is not around then it could not happen. Very good to know.

Musk’s bodyguards have the opportunity to be heroes of the world right now. They would go down in history as great men.

Broadcasting his intention like this really puts a target on his back. He should be more careful… or not, I’ve stocked up on popcorn.

Eutelsat, now is the time for haste. Let’s replace that asshole.

Time to get Ukraine a different method of communication right the fuck away. This is a threat, not a boast.

This is probably the only way he can get erections.

Meanwhile, Europe is pursuing replacements for Ukraine. Obviously none as good as Starlink and there’ll be a rough time in the switchover, but Musk is not the only source for this kind of service.

And in the meantime, by merely making this statement Musk has doomed Starlink to never be seriously considered again as a provider for critical services like this elsewhere in the world.

Since when is he an American billionaire?

That fact that he made that comment would cause every other country to second guess themselves using this service. Starlink is now going to be a US service for the most part. My opinion anyway…who knows these days.

And the tone he took with Sikorski when the latter reminded him that Poland is paying for a lot of Starlinks in Ukraine once more show their attitude to their (former) allies and why we need to cut those people loose and develop - or mass-deploy - self-reliant technologies like Eutelsat as quickly as we can. (I don’t have the exact wording on hand but it was something akin to “Silence, little man…”)

@MicroWave Elon Musk truly is a James Bond villain, right down to bragging about his evil master plan to take over the world.

If he really believed that, it would already be off.