Starlink in the hands of the Russian military and operational should be investigated by the US Congress and the European Union. If the company aided and abetted Russia or even just rejected to curb its use for military means by Russia, then I see a violation of export control.

by Orcasystems99

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  1. Starlink in the hands of the Russian military and operational should be investigated by the US Congress and the European Union. If the company aided and abetted Russia or even just rejected to curb its use for military means by Russia, then I see a violation of export control.

    Source of Pics: https://t.me/uniannet/125272

  2. Elon only has praise for Putin, what do you think happened.

  3. This has been explained numerous times already about how hard this is to track especially with the number of 3rd party donated starlinks to ukraine. Another thoughtless Russian propaganda post trying to drive divides in the west.

    Adding copied post:

    Ukrainians actually do expect regular Starlinks in the warzone without having a military or approved account. They only have 400-500 recently paid by Pentagon military Starlinks. Continuous funding is not guaranteed. From [Oleg Kutkov who repairs Starlinks in Ukraine](https://twitter.com/olegkutkov/with_replies): original text with [my clarifications].

    * “Over 50% (but I can’t tell exact numbers for sure) of Starlinks in Ukraine was bought privately.”
    * “At least 80k [dishes in Ukraine] or even more.”
    * “We have a whole bunch of Starlinks with Poland, Chezh, Slovak, England and even US origins. Volunteers [private donors of Starlink dishes] and simply resellers buy a huge number of terminals and bring them here. The number goes into tens of thousands.”
    * “They [SpaceX] quite officially and intentionally supply to Ukraine. But volunteers [private donors of Starlink dishes] also play an important role.”
    * “It’s impossible to distinguish who is who in a given cell. There might be hundreds of Dishys. The front line is dynamic, so it would be very hard to keep track of each terminal, put your dishy in a list, and remove it in case of destruction – too much bureaucracy; Time is life.”
    * “Yes. So, it’s impossible to distinguish who is who in a given cell. All terminals are in the allowed areas, so Russians realized they could also use this tech on the front line. We need to live with this.”
    * “Everything is complicated. They [Russians] use front [intermediate] persons to buy terminals through the UAE and other countries. At the same time, UA [Ukrainian] volunteers [private donors] are buying terminals in all countries, using different payment cards. It is impossible to close this scheme without closing everyone altogether”
    * “These terminals do not operate on Russia’s territory but only on Ukraine’s territory (in the occupied territories), just like our terminals. It is unrealistic to distinguish who is who in a conventional 20 km cell. Therefore, either everyone works or no one works.”
    * “Correct” in response to “[Russians] Could start using it even earlier.”

  4. Agreed. I work in this industry and there are most certainly KYC and export control laws which have to have been broken for this to happen.

  5. All these nobodies with blue check marks came into save daddy Elon, he’s also due to sleep with anyone of their brides on the first night due to him enacting prima nocta on his followers.

  6. If the Russians use Starlink, the NSA will listen in on all the calls and datastreams. I’d rather not see Starlink in Russians hands, but if they get it the enemy will listen in.

  8. Might be a good thing like the cell phones. I’m sure the pentagon knows and can see it.

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