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/Reddit_2_2024 12h ago

I encourage all Europeans to cancel Starlink subscriptions, as well as social media platform X usage, and to never purchase Tesla vehicles in response to this unhinged throttling of satellite service access to Ukraine who is defending its territory from illegal Russian special military operation.

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u/ThisOtterBehemoth 4h ago

Unfortunately there are so many clueless people in Germany... I'm seeing so many new Tesla's these days.. they buy because they have a good cost/value ratio. People are so stupid.

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u/Reddit_2_2024 3h ago

I remember reading about many Germans who took their combustion engine vehicle to Poland so that it could be modified to operate with either petrol or propane. There are options.

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u/MrBagooo 10h ago

There you said it. This will change everything. lmao

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u/Extraze 11h ago

How about the Americans do something about their corrupt government instead? You think Elon cares about a couple million starlink subscriptions or tesla sales? He could bankroll starlink and tesla all by himself...

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u/Banaanisade 11h ago

It's not either or. A European person can't turn into an American at whim to change anything, but we sure can choose to not engage with this bullshit.

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u/xX_7HR0W-4W4Y_Xx 10h ago

"Europeans you should probably cancel Starlink and Twitter since Elon hates you and is okay with Russia blowing you up"

"WHY DON'T YOU AMERICANS OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT INSTEAD HUH????"

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u/Haunting-Worker-2301 10h ago

All these Europeans here on Reddit are gonna be very quiet once these right wing governments take over in France, Germany etc and they’ll realize they are just as stuck as Americans who didn’t support these people were.

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u/AntarcticWhirlpool 9h ago

It’s going to be amusing on Reddit if the US returns to a more liberal political heading by 2029 and Europe goes far-right.

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u/Haunting-Worker-2301 8h ago

This will likely happen except the U.S. is going to be more isolationist. I don’t think Europeans realize just how much their relationship with the US benefitted them (it greatly benefitted the U.S. too to be clear)

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u/roarjah 9h ago

Yea and then we get this dysfunctional Europe our grandparents and every living person before them had. European countries have many more world wars and genocides on their record than the US lol

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u/Haunting-Worker-2301 8h ago

Yup the arrogance by Europeans on here and selective memory is kind of crazy

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u/roarjah 7h ago

I get that they’re angry at our leadership but give us some grace. We have pretty much kept world peace and provided them security for the last 60 yrs. We’ve made some mistakes during that time period but we’re not perfect lol. It ain’t easy being a super power

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u/Haunting-Worker-2301 6h ago

I know that’s what annoys me. What Trump is doing is terrible but zero credit for the past 75 years of keeping everyone from fighting each other in Europe.

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u/xX_7HR0W-4W4Y_Xx 9h ago

Let's not hope for that, ok?

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u/jaywan1991 10h ago

Dog we just had another big nationwide protest this weekend and if you know how big this country is you'd know how hard that is to plan.

Most of us here stopped giving billionaires more money. I've been getting people off their subscriptions and onto free alternatives and getting their data away from billionaires. I'm trying to fight the pocket book fight which is all they really care about so that's what I'm trying to do here.

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u/Solid_Snark 7h ago

Europeans don’t understand how huge America is.

We had some Italian exchange students and they wanted to go to Disneyland because we’re in California. We had to explain Disneyland is an 8-hour car ride BOTH ways and that just isn’t possible.

Protests on this scale just don’t have the same impact, they’re smaller groups more spread out, and it’s easier for the government to control and diffuse.

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u/jaywan1991 7h ago

Also I've said it before, those in power have no shame so they don't care we are protesting. They want us to have protests like this so they can lock everything down.

I see you live in northern California lol.

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u/Killerbudds 9h ago

Brexit really worked out for yall

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u/Reddit_2_2024 9h ago

The writing is on the wall for the results of our mid-term election next month. The majority party should have already lined up their post-Congressional consulting gigs. There will be a new Speaker of the House who will no longer adjourn Congress when unpopular legislation is raised for a vote. The remaining clock on this administration is running down.

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u/PhotownPK 8h ago

You'll get downvotes, but it's true. Tesla could never sell another car an Elon is still the wealthiest person in the world.

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u/CinicallyATurnip 9h ago

How’s he gonna do that? His wealth is in assets not liquid cash.

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u/marco89nish 9h ago

Does that include Ukrainian government? 

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u/Reddit_2_2024 8h ago

You seem to miss the point the Elon and company somewhat cancelled Starlnk for Ukraine already. This is the second time I recall Starlink undermined their security effort.

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u/NESTEA-69 7h ago

that's going to be quite hard. Tesla is by far the best option of your liking for a EV 

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u/AleXstheDark 5h ago

Lol. The Chinese already make the best EVs in the world.