Biden should confiscate control of Elon's Starlink service due to the national security and or the war powers act. Maybe he wouldn't act like such a douche. Talk about a guy letting his success go to his head. Went from being an uber-intelligent geek who cared about the future for all to just another whiny ass 1%er.
We would have to be at war to do that and the other question is "Why?".
Starlink has clearly shown that they would like to continue to support the operation, but, would prefer to not be 100% responsible for paying to support the system.
The USG has invested over $50B into this war already with plenty of funding going to traditional defense contractors that have plenty of comms systems that were developed with government assistance. So why are things getting hung up over $100M for a Comms system that is far superior to anything that the traditional contractor can offer?
Of course, the answer is obviously that the "foreign aid" money was only ever allowed to be spent on certain things that the lobbyists and beltway insiders wanted.
So, if having a comms solution is important, then all that the DoD or Ukraine needs to do is spend a small fraction of that money to pay for the upkeep and service. We don't need the POTUS to start stealing companies from their owners every time that the government cannot get something for free.
