Musk is Ukraine’s Ally

~ Clarissa

A major factor for why Ukraine was NOT overrun by Russia is the Starlink support I provided, at great risk to @SpaceX cyber & physical attack by Russian military forces.

Starlink is the BACKBONE of Ukrainian military communications at the front lines, because everything else has been blown up or jammed by Russia.

In the words of @ZelenskyyUa:
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And Vice PM of Ukraine confirms that I am an ally.

-Elon Musk

It’s true. Musk has been amazing to Ukraine. I regularly remember him in my prayers for this. What he’s done for Ukraine has been life-saving.

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7 thoughts on “Musk is Ukraine’s Ally”

  1. “Musk has been amazing to Ukraine”

    Except when he unilaterally didn’t turn it on so that Ukraine could attack Crimea….

    And his regular talks with putin?

    He’s not the worst but he’s not the best either.

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      1. None of us can verify anything. Everything you said he’s done was reported in the same media that reported his backroom dealings with Putin and his other backstabbings with Starlink. In the end, he’s just a businessman. He’s not helping Ukraine (or Russia) because he’s a good person. He wants to do more business, like the rest of them.

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        1. I think it’s kind of obvious that I’m not getting my information about the frontline from the media.

          As for his motives, I’m sincerely glad you can care about such things. I can’t. Im getting treated for PTSD. Bit how can treatment help when every day there’s a fresh horror? So what do I care about who is a good person? Musk helped us survive in the first terrible weeks. My gratitude knows no bounds. It’s just that you don’t know until you know. I’m not trying to make anybody feel guilty but what it’s done to me, and I’m safe and far away., God, I don’t wish that on anybody except the Russians.

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  2. Clarissa is already aware of this article.

    You can’t be too picky about your friends.

    Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin

    …Later that year, Musk’s view of the conflict appeared to change. In September, Ukrainian military operatives weren’t able to use Starlink terminals to guide sea drones to attack a Russian naval base in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula Moscow had occupied since 2014. Ukraine tried to persuade Musk to activate the Starlink service in the area, but that didn’t happen, the Journal has reported.His space company extended restrictions on the use of Starlink in offensive operations by Ukraine. Musk said later that he made the move because Starlink is meant for civilian uses and that he believed any Ukrainian attack on Crimea could spark a nuclear war….

    In the fall of 2022, political scientist Ian Bremmer, founder of New York-based consulting firm Eurasia Group, wrote on Twitter that Musk had told him he had spoken with Putin and Kremlin officials about Ukraine. “He also told me what the Kremlin’s red lines were,” he wrote.Bremmer wrote in a newsletter to subscribers that Musk had relayed to him a message from Putin that Russia would secure Crimea and Ukrainian neutrality “no matter what,” and that it would respond to a Ukrainian invasion of Crimea with a nuclear strike. Musk said that “everything needed to be done to avoid that outcome,” Bremmer wrote.Musk has publicly denied he said any of those things to Bremmer….

    In the past year, Musk and Russia’s interests have increasingly overlapped. Apart from Russia’s use of X for disinformation and Musk’s outspoken opposition to aid to Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said earlier this year that Russian forces occupying the country’s eastern and southern swaths had started using Starlink to enable secure communications and extend the range of their drones. Russian troops also began using Starlink terminals, brought in through third countries, at a massive scale, undermining one of Ukraine’s few battlefield advantages. Musk has said on X that to the best of his knowledge, no terminals had been sold directly or indirectly to Russia, and that the terminals wouldn’t work inside Russia…

    Earlier this year, Musk gave airtime to Putin and his views on the U.S. and Ukraine when X carried Tucker Carlson’s two-hour interview with the Russian leader inside the Kremlin. In that interview, Putin said he was sure Musk “was a smart person.”….

    …Late last year, the Kremlin first made the request of Musk to not activate Starlink over Taiwan, said a former Russian intelligence officer briefed on the situation. The request was done as a favor to China, he said, whom Russia was increasingly relying on for trade and to get around sanctions. A representative of the Chinese embassy in Washington said they weren’t aware of the specifics and couldn’t comment. Starlink has never secured permission to offer internet service in Taiwan, whose government places restrictions on non-Taiwanese satellite operators….

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