@McClarinJ
Good job exploring the geopolitical issues surrounding Starlink.
@WWeronko
The Department of Defense has seen the military application of Starlink for sometime. Raytheon Technologies on Sept. 10, 2020 received a $13 million contract to test the use of Starlink internet services on military aircraft. The effort is under the U.S. Air Force for the program known as “defense experimentation using commercial space internet,” or DEUCSI. In 2019 the Air Force awarded similar contracts to L3Harris, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin to investigate the potential cost of using commercial satellite broadband services such as SpaceX’s Starlink, SES’s O3B and others. Clearly Starlink is the more robust of available services. The recent attack with water born Ukraine drones on the Russian black sea fleet seems to have had Starlink antennas on top of the drones. Starlink has clearly significant military potential that Russia and China see as a threat if SpaceX likes it or not.
@lucidmoses
I like your description of 'chaotic'. People argue whether he is good or evil which doesn't make much sense. But chaotic-good does.
@lucidmoses
FYI, You don't have to hit the 'coffee table'. Hitting the solar panels would be good enough. Also, I don't see much of a difference between hitting a private satellite or a private house (assuming no one was in it)
@ZoomZoomMX3
It also provides the perfect test location and ability to demonstrate the services to remote locations
@Tabula_Rasa1
This is a very interesting take on why he decided to reject DOD funding. A lot of media are saying Pentagon brought up 3rd party company, but I doubt that was the reason why he decided to keep funding the Ukrainian usage. This video's explanation actually makes the most sense.... although we will never know.
@johannes2273
Is it only me who needs to max out volume to hear clearly lately at the videos ?
@cooper1507
3:00 I think we quickly learned that Russia army is only large and is mostly just a ramshackle military that can barely fight a war with a shared boarder country it is fighting.
@daveruggles4450
What are the other billions-airs doing to help Ukraine and the potential advance of Russia on NATO?
@k.sullivan6303
Why did Elon withdraw the financial support request? Cuz he got the Twitter! LOL
@thomasvarghese-bk9xt
Yes space x is the villan against russia.
@theone8189
AI figuring out the low orbits of the coffee tables and sending cheap glass marbles into a collision course with the orbits will do the job. Any unused marbles will return to earth and burn out in the atmosphere.
@feyaia
I guess we will find out where Elon's scruples are when China moves on Taiwan.
@ray1956
The USA leaders need NEW rules to define private sector involvement in Foreign Affairs 😮 to avert Armageddon
@johnsonrepp
So Elon can sway a war in either favor. All from the safety of his friends basement. 😂. Elon is the modern day Mayer A. Rothschild.
@tdawgluxor1060
Surprised that "MAJOR" was not in the title this time.
@stewiex
Who are you calling a dummy?
@reginaldmcnab3265
1:48 It is already an instrument of war! And it is on the side of global hegemony
@TheSpaceRaceYT