Elon Musk Overtly Blamed For Starlink Failure And Accused Of Wartime Profiteering In Favor Of Russia

As reported on prior, Elon Musk was previously believed to be shutting down access to Starlink, an important Satellite communications network which has been vital for Ukraine in the ongoing Ukraine Invasion after a series of spats on Twitter over his belief on what a peaceful resolution would look like. A recent Tweet from Musk tried to confirm that it truly was because of the Twitter fight that he decided to shut off Starlink communications to thousands in Ukraine who are actively fighting for their lives, angering everyone online.

Musk appears to confirm he is cutting off Starlink service to Ukraine over a Twitter tiff. pic.twitter.com/IH6iwfQZ6B

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) October 14, 2022

Can the Defense Production Act be used to ensure that Elon doesn’t shut off Ukrainian access to Starlink?

— Paul Massaro (@apmassaro3) October 14, 2022

Elon Musk's fortune is estimated to 251 billions. Still, he notified the Pentagon to pay for Starlink systems otherwise he will intrerrupt the service.
He has no obligation to donate for Ukraine but we have no obligation also to buy his products. And we shouldn't.

— PaulC (@PaulConRO) October 14, 2022

Elon Musk is not exactly downplaying the idea that his move to stop funding Starlink for Ukraine is punitive pic.twitter.com/cOHNHswOfZ

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 14, 2022

The wrinkle in this story, however, is that according to documentation, Elon came to the Pentagon a full month beforehand and announced that if he didn't receive the funding he needed, that Starlink would start to experience interruptions in service in multiple regions of Ukraine, which is what started to happen just before the Twitter fight started. This is what caused the allegations that Musk is a war profiteer, because his estimates of actual cost versus what people in Ukraine are actively being charged for service use don't quite add up, with Musk's Pentagon figure being several times larger than what people are estimating it should truly cost to run the system.

So Musk is pretending he cut Starlink off from Ukraine because the ambassador hated his fake peace plan, but in reality it comes because he tried to basically blackmail the US government with it a month ago?

He LIES. He’s a MASSIVE LIAR. You can’t trust anything he says pic.twitter.com/STVWg1rWyn

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) October 14, 2022

Must read on Starlink in Ukraine via @cnn today and how SpaceX got paid vs. what it donated… https://t.co/NyjMNb1i5W pic.twitter.com/zCoCFS1fsn

— Lora Kolodny (@lorakolodny) October 14, 2022

So @elonmusk is whining about losing a lot of money on Starlinks for Ukraine.

Meanwhile, may I present to you snippets of my bank statements.
Thousands of Ukrainians, paying his company monthly.

So the question is: did you really lose more money than you earned? pic.twitter.com/w8OX2EBiqf

— Melaniya Podolyak (@MelaniePodolyak) October 14, 2022

Ukrainians – whose average annual income is about $6000 per year – crowd-funded $9.6 million in only a day to buy RAM II kamikaze drones.

Elon Musk – whose net worth is around $215 billion – wants U.S. taxpayers to pick up the tab for Starlink in Ukraine.

— Michael MacKay (@mhmck) October 14, 2022