October 14, 2022, 7:54 PMA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink 4-20 mission, launches from Space Launch Complex 40 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sept. 4, 2022.Billionaire Elon Musk says his space company SpaceX cannot keep funding its Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine "indefinitely" and has sent a letter to the Pentagon to make that point.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink 4-20 mission, launches from Space Launch Complex 40 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sept. 4, 2022.Late Friday, Sabrina Singh, the Pentagon's deputy press secretary, confirmed receipt of the letter that touched on the funding of Starlink.
Shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, Musk offered free terminals that link with Space X satellites to help the beleaguered country maintain internet communications with the rest of the world.
That's a Real Bitch Move Elon ! 🤬💩🤬
A letter? Why not an email?
Quid pro quo for shutting down the investigation into the Twitter deal 😼
So Musk is giving Starlink modules free so he can hit up the service end. Kinda like giving a kid a toy without batteries.
Good!
Here say old news moving on to the debates
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What they mean. Is they want us the people to pay for it our tax dollars. No sir
Pedo joe has given Ukraine money to support the war, why not give Elon Musk money to support round the clock surveillance of Ukraine?
But I was told that the US gov was ALREADY paying the bill. You mean Elon was actually doing what he said he was doing? Imagine that. Haters gonna hate.
Capitalism Baby!
REAL TRUTH: ELON MUSK is a COWARD & TRAITOR & 'Shuffle Walks' after PUTIN....
Do we need any more proof that Musk is steadily fellating Putin?
Private companies shouldn't be involved in government security
pelosi democrats would rather fund drag queen shows out of covid funds
Once the war is over, and they can use broadband like the rest of us, won't this go away.
My tax dollars to cover the initiatives of a man worth $219 million? No thanks elonmusk - you can well afford it. Consider it a financial donation for a humanitarian cause.
Wouldn’t it be appropriate for President Biden, at some point, to thank Musk for what he is doing for Ukranians out of his own pocket, while still paying huge amounts in income tax?
Charity only goes so far. If no one wants to foot the bill, Musk should shut them down.
Why are you all yelling at the man who never had to offer help in the first place?
That’s not what he said. He stated that he will stop this on Ukraine territories and if the Pentagon wants to pick up the bull, they are welcome too: this was after Zelensky and co told him to ‘fuck off’
But he can afford Twitter 🙄
Comrade Musk farts in your general direction
Suck it up Elon. You lost far more money YESTERDAY on Tesla stock.
so he's now trying to force a govt contract? dirty
Sounds like Russia offered him some oligarch cash.
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Why doesn’t Congress send a few billion his way, after all, there’s enough to go around.
And the citizens of the world cannot continue to subsidize Musk’s boondoggles indefinitely.
I don’t see an issue here. I don’t recall Starlink being a charity. If you can send billions to Boeing or Northrop, you can send them to musk. I dislike him personally as well, but capitalists can still do what they do…right?
Elon musk! Always at the center! After all he's the World's Richest
Z should pay for it.
Musk is being investigated for the Twitter deal. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a leveraging tactic to make the investigation go away!
I think he's right....
Why doesn’t Ukraine use some of the $75 BILLION we’ve given them to pay for it?🤔
As someone pointed out earlier Ukrainians are PAYING to use Starlink. His story sounds fishy. Musty seems strapped for cash and is looking to extort another handout from the US. Since clearly siding with Russia at this time all of his government contracts should be re-evaluated.
He’s getting paid. Ukrainians are paying him. Pentagon has paid him. He’s a liar needing cash to buy twitter.
Makes sense. Infrastructure should be run under direct authority of governments. This easily fits in available US/ NATO budgets. Musk has made his sizable contribution
This what happened.
WHERE TO WORK FOR UKRAINIAN MEN: 🇪🇺🇺🇦 The EU Mission to Ukraine will start training another 12,000 people from the beginning of November, an EU representative said ahead of a meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg. Need a job - go to war... eight months at a standstill...
I don't blame him. somebody paying for those weapons sent over to Ukraine he's like shhd I gotta get paid too 😩
He didn't indefinitely keep funding starlink service in Ukraine. Users in Ukraine battlefield are paying for that. Musk is a fraud.
Looks like Ukrainians are paying the bills and Elon Musk rat is a lying narcissist yet again
Billionaire who can’t afford it…. LMAO. What a joker!
People should probably recognize who they’re speaking to and the power they wield. Telling Musk to “fuck off” is the only reason he’s charging. I don’t blame him, you wanna throw rocks, better be prepared to handle your own house
Remind me, do we have to buy our planes and military vehicles and equipment? Those companies don’t just give it to us? They expect us to pay for services? Crazy thought. Stop demonizing Elon
BearAnyBurden Let's keep this system working...
Don't care.
Why not? They pay for the bullets.
Biden will be like “how will Ukraine having free wifi help you and your family” and then make us pay for it.
Sorry Elon The FAA might rescind your license to launch rockets.
No problem, Elon. Just agree that if the US pays for it, then the US owns it. Hey, what's fair is fair, right? 😎
He volunteered his services and is a billionaire plus buying Twitter. He is cash strapped and want the Pentagon to pick up the tab. Hmmm? Has his business suffered any major profit loss?
His $200 billion fortune can't afford to keep it going. Takes the good publicity, then has a tantrum and throws all his toys out of the cot Teeny Trump.
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They told him f...off when he was helping them, so of course
Elon at it again. Richest man in the world needs everybody else to pay for his toys for him. Elon welfare queen 👸.
This isn’t actually the situation, abc, is it? When someone tells you to F off, why should you continue to gift them?
Within days of his ego being hurt because Ukraine didn't like his plan to 'give some of its land and citizens to russia so that everyone is happy'.
Sorry Elon, we don't have any money left for you. We gave it all to Ukraine already, so they can waste it on what ever the heck they are wasting it on.
Shaking us down for 20 mil a month. 😏
Richest man in the world , greedy bastard. I believe in Karma ElonMusk
Maybe he should break some SEC regulations about it
I don't see why he can't
With one stroke Elon Musk single handedly ends the war in Ukraine. Zelensky is one step closer to fleeing Ukraine, the Democrats one step closer to handling both houses to GOP and Biden becoming the lame duck president quacking in the White House but nobody cares what he quacks.
What a fake person… it’s useless anyways… no one uses 👎
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Why doesn’t investigate SpeakerPelosi and Paul Pelosi’s insider trading? Be journalists, not political shields!
We need elonmusk satellite here in ghana 🇬🇭
Time for an IRS audit then.
That’s right. The US taxpayers must pay for the war. Not businessmen.
市場經濟需要對價交易，如果要挾將被文明世界拋棄。
meanwhile at the Pentagon they're formulating a plan on how to break the bad news to Elon
You don't become the richest person on earth by helping others.
He shouldn’t keep funding it either, $80million he has donated in services, and the moment he suggests a peaceful solution to war rather than outright nuclear war, they turn on him. People have lapped up the conflict propaganda like they did Covid Propaganda. Short memories.
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