Last Friday Elon Musk announced that he could no longer finance stellar communications satellites what lends Ukrainedue to high cost and asked the Pentagon for financial assistance. Yesterday, on Saturday, Musk changed his speech and now says that will continue to fund free Starlink satellites in Ukraine.
As the invasion of Ukraine began, Elon Musk stepped forward and announced that he would lend his stellar communication satellites Ukrainian army and government after the Russians sabotaged the Internet structure of the captured country. And that’s what he’s done so far.
A few weeks ago, Musk posted a strange tweet calling for a peace deal. even hinting at the surrender of Ukraineto avoid nuclear war. The tweet that angered the Ukrainian authorities.
There were rumors that Elon Musk spoke to Putin and told him that if the war continued, there will be a nuclear attack. Musk had to admit that he spoke with the Russian president, but a month before the tweet.
Elon Musk will finance Starlink satellites in Ukraine for free
Last Friday there was a letter that Elon Musk sent to the Pentagon a few days ago asking US taxpayers fund Starlink satellites used by Ukraine. Starlink satellites are the only way to connect Ukrainian troops and the government on the front lines.
The Elon Musk Company sent over 20,000 satellite terminals to Ukraine, and while most of it was paid for by allied countries and some Ukrainians pay for the connection, Elon Musk claims in the letter that they pay for a basic connection but use the maximum speed and consume 100 times more data than the average home. Also in July, Ukraine ordered another 8,000 terminals.
According to the letter, Starlink has already invested $120 million to help Ukraine. and if the war goes on for another year, he will have to invest more 400 million dollars.
The Pentagon’s official stance is that they are working with Starlink and allies to find a better solution, but information has been leaked inside that they are unhappy with Musk for “play hero and then pass the bill to the taxpayers“.
We do not know what has changed in the mind of the South African mogul, but yesterday, on Saturday, he posted a tweet where, as on Twitter, flips your solution 180 degrees:
To hell with it… even though Starlink is still losing money and other companies are getting billions of taxpayer dollars, we will just continue to fund the Ukrainian government for free.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 15, 2022
“the hell with it“begins.”Even if Starlink continues to lose money and other companies receive billions of dollars from taxpayers, we will continue to donate money to the Ukrainian government.“.
It seems clear that initially Elon Musk believed, as most thought, that the invasion of Ukraine would last days, weeks at most. But now that 8 months have passed and it doesn’t look like the end is near, the bill for this assistance to Ukraine has grown uncontrollablyand will continue to do so.
It seems that someone convinced Elon Muskwho contradicts himself on Twitter and now claims he’s going to keep funding stellar communication satellites from Ukraine, freely. The problem is, with the founder of SpaceX, you never know if it’s a promise or if he’ll change his mind again tomorrow…
Source: Computer Hoy
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