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Ukraine learns to fight without Starlink as Musk plays politics with satellites
Ukraine has changed drones and war-fighting tech to reduce reliance on Starlink.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/ukraine-learns-to-fight-without-starlink-as-musk-plays-politics-with-satellites/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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US is just not reliable, either intended to turn starlink off or bugs in their satellite.
If the control code in Starlink is written by Grok, then it's not so surprising
@arstechnica musk, a private citizen with a fixed US taxpayer paid contract to provide services, plays politics with the foreign affairs of the US and its allies and domestic affairs of another country. We truly are in the bad place.
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Soldiers from a rifle battalion of the National Police of Ukraine set up a Starlink satellite communication terminal in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on October 16, 2026. Credit: Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images