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This article is trash. The title: "after speaking with Russian officials". The image caption: "Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, has denied Ukrainian requests to ac

This article is trash. The title: "after speaking with Russian officials". The image caption: "Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, has denied Ukrainian requests to activate Starlink near Crimea." In the article: "According to Isaacson, Musk himself ordered Starlink engineers to deactivate the system along the coast of Crimea, thwarting a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian fleet (the drones "lost connectivity and washed ashore"). He then rejected a direct appeal from a top Ukrainian official to enable the system for future such attacks, per Isaacson." Further, the article quotes Musk as saying: "Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes." It makes no other mention of him doing this "after speaking with Russian officials", and literally says "Musk himself ordered [...]"?

publius_0xf3 3y ago
The Washington Post article makes clear that Musk was speaking to the Russian ambassador, according to Isaacson, although Musk went further and made it sound like he was talking to Putin himself. >Although he had readily supported Ukraine, he believed it was reckless for Ukraine to launch an attack on Crimea, which Russia had annexed in 2014. He had just spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States. (In later conversations with a few other people, he seemed to imply that he had spoken directly to President Vladimir Putin, but to me he said his communications had gone through the ambassador.) The ambassador had explicitly told him that a Ukrainian attack on Crimea would lead to a nuclear response. Musk explained to me in great detail, as I stood behind the bleachers, the Russian laws and doctrines that decreed such a response.

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This article is trash. The title: "after speaking with Russian officials". The image caption: "Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, has denied Ukrainian requests to ac

by whatamidoingyo 3y ago

publius_0xf3 3y ago
The Washington Post article makes clear that Musk was speaking to the Russian ambassador, according to Isaacson, although Musk went further and made it sound like he was talking to Putin himself. >Although he had readily supported Ukraine, he believed it was reckless for Ukraine to launch an attack on Crimea, which Russia had annexed in 2014. He had just spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States. (In later conversations with a few other people, he seemed to imply that he had spoken directly to President Vladimir Putin, but to me he said his communications had gone through the ambassador.) The ambassador had explicitly told him that a Ukrainian attack on Crimea would lead to a nuclear response. Musk explained to me in great detail, as I stood behind the bleachers, the Russian laws and doctrines that decreed such a response.