I’m wondering why Musk elected to do this now. Most likely has to do with the Epstein files.
But, there are two different ways that may have had an effect. They both may have played a role, but not necessarily:
Maybe Putin no longer has material for pressuring Musk when the cat is already out of the box anyway. If Musk wanted to support Ukraine, now it can.
Musk must be furious at Trump for having been selected as one of the people to throw under the bus by choosing Musk as one of the people whose mentions should be published. If this is just it throwing a tantrum, there’s a sadly high chance that the Russia will regain its Starlink access once the assumed tantrum is over.
Ukraine presented a russian shahed drone with starlink on it that did hit a civilian train full of people. Would russians not be bloodcrazy ghouls, they would still have starlinks on the frontlines.
Russia started employing remote controlled geran/shahed drones with connection implemented via Starlink relatively recently. The initial stopgap fix was to shut off connection at speeds over 90km/h.
Ukraine had to compile the database of serial numbers (or whatever identifiers they use) of all Starlink units they have to whitelist them and there was pushback from the people on the frontlines who said that reporting ownership of their Starlink terminal may result in their commanders “redistributing” said terminal away from them, so it took time to make the whitelists happen.
I’m wondering why Musk elected to do this now. Most likely has to do with the Epstein files.
But, there are two different ways that may have had an effect. They both may have played a role, but not necessarily:
Ukraine presented a russian shahed drone with starlink on it that did hit a civilian train full of people. Would russians not be bloodcrazy ghouls, they would still have starlinks on the frontlines.