Elon Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Outrage
Elon Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Outrage

Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Outrage

Elon Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Outrage
Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Outrage
Maybe - just maybe - a private citizen shouldn't be left in control of contracted military infrastructure at all...
His posturing politically may just be to protect himself from SpaceX and Starlink being nationalized.
People have over and over again tried to apply some logic to Musk's behaviour, but I have found that in most cases it ends up just being plain stupidity or ignorance at best.
Giving a nation the idea you may support an enemy. Is in no way a protection from that nation taking control of your assets. It is at best giving the nation the ability to rationalise the need to limit your own power.
After all dispite not seeing any reason why any corp in the US would be worried about current potential govs nationalising them. It just not something either of the main parties are fans of.
Its even less likely musk would see cooperation with russia as a way to prevent such a thing.
If we had a policy of nationalizing contracted military infrastructure, then nobody would make a contract with the military.
And while this may sound good to some, it sure wouldn't be in Ukraine's interest. Unreliable Starlink access is better than no Starlink access at all.
It doesn't have to be nationalized, but it doesn't make any sense for a civilian to be able to unilaterally make decisions like that while under military contract. At the very least, any decision to change or influence the contracted service while the contract is active should require some sort of review and approval. Maybe there's a good reason it's the way it is, I'm just a layman, but every time I hear about this it just baffles me why it was even allowable for Elon to make the call he did, or any call for that matter.