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Italy is having growing doubts about closing €1.5B deal with SpaceX for Starlink
- rasz 2y agoAfter US disabled Himars for Ukraine yesterday Im waiting for Poland to cancel $10 billion Himars contract.
- msie 2y agoWhy would any nation use Starlink now that it has been politically weaponized?
- slwvx 2y agoI wouldn't trust Musk. He's a loose cannon and an unreliable partner
- steve_gh 2y agoI think that the blowback from the new US administration's policy on Ukraine, Nato etc will be vastly increased defence spending. However I think it is highly unlikely that the money will be spent outside of Europe. It is now very clear (from a European perspective) that our defence infrastructure to be based on the East side of the Atlantic, and not subject to the whims of the US administration.
- beardyw 2y agoWhy do they need it?
- rsynnott 2y agoHmm, _slightly_ pleasantly surprised that Italy's getting nervous now; if any European leader (apart from Orban) was going to side with Trump-world over Europe, Meloni would be the obvious candidate.
- zfg 2y agoTaiwan similarly can't trust Starlink. Putin, on behalf of China, asked Musk to not activate Starlink over Taiwan: https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187 https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversat... Taiwan's space agency is developing a domestic system: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2025/02/27/2003832591 https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2025/02/27/...