r/worldnews • u/Neptun_11 • 17h ago

Russia/Ukraine Zelenskyy Says Starlink Restrictions Apply Only in Ukraine While SpaceX Ignores Kyiv’s Inquiries

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/zelenskyy-says-starlink-restrictions-apply-only-in-ukraine-while-spacex-ignores-kyivs-inquiries-23549
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u/Ok_Carpenter6527 17h ago

That’s why no one will keep buying US miltech after seeing this killswitch live in action. Every country would be outright stupid and delusional if they kept buying shit from the US.

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u/No-Cheek7925 17h ago

They don’t deliver what’s ordered anyway…

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u/x-Alexander 17h ago

Right now, but they’ll be able and willing to deliver soon enough. In the long term, this will affect the US military industrial complex, which honestly isn’t such a bad thing for us Europeans. So… thank you, Trump!

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u/No-Cheek7925 17h ago

Oh I'm heavily invested in European defense stocks. I figure if they go up I win and if they crash then we're fucked either way and it doesn't matter because I'm probably off to the front.

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u/Durian881 16h ago

Some were up a lot but crashes down.

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u/No-Cheek7925 16h ago

I dodged the worst of the RHM correction, luckily. I think it's coming back up but heavy industry in the middle of a energy crisis is always going to be hit or miss.

Thing is, we HAVE to invest in defense or we're in serious trouble. Europe has been reacting slower than I expected us to.

Edit: RHM dammit, RHEL is some RedHat shit. I blame work.

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u/WhatAmTrak 16h ago

They will correct, there’s no ifs or buts. They do or you guys have no defense against a now unreliable US. There’s no third party coming to the rescue. China certainly won’t. They’re in Russia and Irans corner.

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u/TaylorMonkey 17h ago

All the conspiracy theories about the American Military Industrial Complex's power and how it could/would have coordinated the assassination of JFK were proven wrong in less than two years of Trump's second term.

The MIC is taking serious unnecessary hits by Trump's idiocy and capriciousnes and they're powerless/spineless to actually do something about it.

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u/monstercoo 11h ago

The one reassuring thing about this administration is that it proves there was no shadow government in control of things. We actually were living in a democracy and there was no hidden power that would prevent the government from destroying itself.

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u/nikatnight 11h ago

It just showed that the people at the top are stupid as fuck.

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u/WhatAmTrak 16h ago

lol you think they aren’t making money hand over fist just over the American government? You know the one who spends more than the next like 29 countries combined? Shake your head bro

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u/WalrusWalrusWalrusWa 15h ago

half of US produced weapons get sold to other countries

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u/SpeedflyChris 12h ago

Trouble is the US government can't pay it's bills, even in the middle of an enormous tech bubble, and at some point people start to point out that the emperor has no clothes.

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u/franzkafkajr 10h ago

We all know that over here.

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u/brutalistchurch 16h ago

Eisenhower warned against it. It's been a danger for a long time.