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Eleven days after Ukraine's Starshield terminals started mysteriously malfunctioning, there is still nobody in Washington who wants to take responsibility, while Trump administration officials continue pointing fingers firmly at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

kyivindependent.comAnalysis: Ukraine’s Starshield access is still crippled, and no one is taking the blameEleven days after Ukraine's Starshield terminals started mysteriously malfunctioning, there is still nobody in Washington who wants to take responsibility, while Trump administration officials continu...

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"As of this morning, instances of connectivity loss at speeds of 161 km/h are still being observed. There is currently no confirmation that these restrictions have been lifted," a source in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 23.

Nobody owns it because it wasnt a glitch. A 161 km/h cutoff on a US-controlled military network is a policy setting, and the finger-pointing between Trump and Musk is just two people dodging who signed off on slowing drone interceptors mid-defense.

They have (surprisingly) planned to have just enough plausible deniability to evade detection. They may have the balls to plan this but their complete lack of morals is frightening. If there’s karma let it rain on them.

Musk has screwed himself and his business Starlink. Countries are not going to want to use his system if it can be meddled or turned off at a mad man’s whim killing innocent people.

If the administration actually cared, why hasn't the DOJ stepped in? If I tweaked Patriot missiles to let incoming threats get through and hit Israel, I'd already be in cuffs in a dark room.

Eleven days, and the only thing everyone agrees on is that it wasn’t them. Musk says the government decides. The Pentagon says it gave no order. Rubio says it’s SpaceX’s call. Trump says he didn’t know, then that Musk “put it back.” Meanwhile Kyiv says it’s still limited.🫣

Trump, Musk and all others in that administration are all cowards. Only big strong words, but hide if accountability hunts them. And people follow them and praise them like they where gods.

WSJ: President Trump called Elon Musk and asked him to lift Starlink restrictions Trump: I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) 😽

Tesla owners are scared - If Musk can deactivate Starshield on a whim, he can deactivate their Teslas. He’s proven this week he’s crazy enough to do it - and WHEN he does, the US government won’t do a thing about it. Why would anyone pour 70k into something that can be bricked by a maniac?

They are clearly both responsible as both Trump & Musk have a vested interest in Putin winning in Ukraine. And so they are using the "it's not me" line as a means to prolong the throttling. Why can't journalists see this? It's obvious. They are in total cahoots on everything.

During WW2, when Vichy was collaborating with Hitler, Jewish people arrested were told by the gendarmes "it's, not us, it's the Germans" and by the German soldiers : "it's not our problem, go see the gendarmes". Same tactics. Same ideology. Same shit.

Trump, Elon, and the Pentagon are locked in a pathetic circle of blame while Trump lies about a solution. The MAGA cult keeps pointing fingers, completely blind to the fact that their lack of humanity is costing Ukrainian children their lives.

Eleven days and the answer is still "ask SpaceX, ask the White House." Starshield sits on a Pentagon contract, so the throttle has an owner somewhere in that chain. A comms cut with no name on it leaves the decision unsigned by anyone.

So little courage … so many lives sacrificed. And Trump nor Musk gave a damn till the critics called them out. Children died …

Once upon a time a U.S. citizen's deadly interference with an ally's defense against a Russian attack would have triggered an immediate Congressional investigation, not just wandering, day-after-day-after-day media chatter.