Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia

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8. Musk helped Russia use Starlink

Musk enabled Starlink terminals being used by Russia when they were suffering huge losses earlier this year.


https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-using-thousands-spacex-starlink-terminals-ukraine-wsj-says-2024-02-15/

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Russian troops in Ukraine are using thousands of Starlink satellite communications terminals made by Elon Musk's SpaceX, the Ukrainian military intelligence chief told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Thursday.
Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov said that Russian troops have been communicating over the Starlink system "for quite a long time" and acquired the terminals from private Russian firms that purchased them from intermediaries.



Musk has also sold stocks in his companies both Starlink and Space X and tried to hide where the purchases were made by funnelling money through front companies similar to how money launderers buy real estate

https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-allows-china-investment-cayman-islands-secrecy

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is certainly a policy of obfuscation,” an expert said.

Musk should not be trusted to be loyal to the US while he makes deals with Russia and China


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/18/russia-mars-elon-musk



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