How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaireā€”and is now struggling to rein him in.

  • Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    The most insane part is that they never even entered into a contract with Starlink to provide service. Starlink is the backbone of Ukraineā€™s communications infrastructure, and itā€™s shocking that the DoD and the Ukraine Armed Forces never thought ā€œhey we should get a contract with Musk so we can ensure he keeps Starlink available throughout the warā€. For such a critical service, they were content with dealing with Starlink directly and having Elon subsidize it personally, giving him a large degree of control over one of the most vital components of Ukrainian communications, rather than what they eventually did by going through the DoD to negotiate a contract with Elon using taxpayer dollars