Satellite internet functionality via Starshield — the military version of the SpaceX service — was being at least partially restored Thursday morning, according to a source in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
Ukraine has resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy angrily accused the United States of betraying Kyiv with a “dangerous” withdrawal of support critical to its defense against Russia.
Ukraine held off on attacks for three days after Donald Trump’s unilateral “energy ceasefire” announcement, but accused Russia of repeatedly attacking its power grid. Zelenskyy voiced mounting frustration over the Kremlin’s failure to abide by the truce, and what he sees as U.S. attempts to pressure Kyiv after gaps in intelligence sharing on Russian attacks and restrictions on the Starlink internet service.
Satellite internet functionality via Starshield — the military version of the SpaceX service — was being at least partially restored Thursday, according to a source in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic.
In an interview with the Financial Times, published Thursday, Zelenskyy indicated his patience had already been exhausted.
Thank you President Zelenskyy! I wish you the best of luck, skill and determination to shove that Russian fucker to a cell in Siberia.
Thanks for the data center too. Know where any more are?
Wish we had a Zelenskyy in the white House and not the festering pile of orange shit we currently have.
Y’know if we had to keep the orange part I’d be thrilled to have a literal orangutan in the seat. I’m sure they’d be smarter, more compassionate, and certainly less ghastly painful to behold with the eyes.
Starlink needs to be nationalised… Or … Um… UNised?
It’s kind of going on the reverse. The US is kind of being subsumed into Musk Inc.
hopefully europe will provide what the orange TRAITOR took away
Carry on Ukraine. Fuck MAGA and their Russian masters. This proves, further, that the current US administration is completely unreliable and untrustworthy. I would not purchase US made weapon systems until the MAGA turds are gone.
Current administration? haha The entire reason the Ukraine is in this mess is because the US and NATO has been using them as sacraficial lambs since Clinton.
No, the entire reason Ukraine is in this mess, is because putler invaded them
Pretty sure it’s because they willingly handed over their nukes based on an empty promise.
That didnt help for sure but all russia had to do was not invade
Ukraine, not “the Ukraine”
The person you responded to is likely either (a) Russian or (b) old enough to remember what parts of the USSR were called … or © both.
Here’s some info in case anyone doesn’t know why we would make a distinction between Ukraine and “the Ukraine.”
Target more data centers please!
Musk should be tried for the deaths he causes by playing those games.
I like when oil infrastructure explodes.
I saw an army patch in Ukraine with a drone above a refinery with the slogan: Just stopped oil.
That’s awesome
Remember when conservatives hated Russia until their programming was changed?
No values beyond bigotry. No consistency beyond stupidity.
I don’t remember that, no.
It was like a fucking light switch.
Because they’re immoral. They’re lesser men.
Beware of the media you consume, it exists to shape you. Including this comment.
Because Russia is no longer a communist country despised by conservatives, but a country larping as conservative that pay lip service to American conservatives to destabilise the West.
Conservatism is and always has been an attempt to return to a form of feudalism, with the rich being the new nobility and everyone else being powerless to resist. In that regard, Russia with its oligarchs is about as conservative as it comes.
someone likened texas is closer to russia, since oligarchs/abbot, practically controls the whole state
Probably similar power grid reliability stats and winter casualties, too.
No. Conservatism can be that and can be skepticism to idealism in all forms.
The Russian example would be the popular belief of some people that presidential power should be made stronger in the 90s, and then of some other people that everything western is just better from the root and larping is enough, and then of another group of people that they can take modern (by year 2012) Russia’s common idea of “respectable” and “cool” and make it compatible with honesty and justice and their own survival.
The American example would be - well, I think Fox News is good enough, what they started with was (of what I’ve read) the typical American idea of “alternative” and “anti-establishment”, which is good in itself, just believing that there’s a side offering that or that there’s a way to move the world in that direction radically, - these are dangerous idiocies.
The “youthly liberal modern” idea of cool of 2010s in the social media, that I’ve recently remembered, is too a good example. When virtually all of the crowd was uncritically accepting that people at whom corporate policies point and say “they are homophobes, extremists and what’s the worst of all - uncool”, are really that.
One meaning of the word “conservatism” is being skeptical of such things. One can be conservative-left. It’s just that people don’t like nuance.
It doesn’t matter what you think conservatism is, it only matters what your masters think it is. And they follow the teachings of Edmund Burke, that money means control and that control is everything.
As long as you keep supporting monsters, they’ll keep selling you lies.
Because conservatism is the push for a new feudalism, and the serfs have no say in it beyond blindly supporting the rich.
Well, if we reach that, your support is also not very meaningful.
There’s obviously nothing anti establishment and counter cultural about fox news. These are demagogues with budgets of millions of USD and with a large viewership.
How they stylize their reactionary bs is almost meaningless. It’s surface level.
The point remains: they have nothing beyond bigotry and stupidity and these are the only constants.
Yeah, “they” matters not about the source, but about what the audience thinks.
It doesn’t matter what lies they buy into. There’s no such thing as a “conservative lefty” or whatever you wrote earlier.
They bought into some culture war issue that’s in the end meaningless.
It’s not important to be able to discriminate against trans people but they want to do that and are willing to accept a whole bundle of reactionary policies along with it.
I’m pretty sure that just means “conservative” doesn’t mean anything.
Well, all words have different semantics depending on the context and would have none without context. Doesn’t say much.
Semantics can be playing with words, are sure you’re not doing that?
We’re not talking about words, we’re talking about political ideology. A communist is a communist, a liberal is a liberal, a fascist is a fascist, these ideologies aren’t context dependent. There are different kinds of communists and liberals and fascists etc etc but they’re all recognizably part of the same ideological family with a clear historical tradition, no matter the time period or country.
Conservatives can be so radically different in different contexts that it’s not really useful as a descriptor. It’s like saying someone is extreme or moderate or revolutionary or something, its so context dependent that it tells you practically nothing without the context.
Remember when a certain Fox News contributor who goes on TV saying we should be at war with Iran to prevent them from having missiles was charged with illegally selling missiles to Iran in trade for keeping Americans hostage until after the 1980 election?
Woahoooha damn…which of their clowns was this?? Sounds a touch before my time.
Just remember that all morality and decency is North of him.
Thanks for the sauce.
Jaw. Dropped. Wow. They can really just get away with anything, can’t they?
Technically he did the treason first, and then got hired by Fox to justify his treason.
Read his first wife died two years ago and he married the woman he shredded documents with a year later. 🤦🏻♂️
We should probably tell the whole story. Not to justify his actions, but he did the treason because the President told him to.
And where did he get the money to procure those missiles since it was a black.op and could not be on government books?
Profiting from selling cocaine to US.citizens and starting the crack cocaine epidemic in LA.
Trump can fuck off straight to hell along with all his fucking Nazi followers.
Understand one very important thing that’s happening here: stopping Russia at this point in time benefits the entire planet.
They’ve been going around attacking countries, killing people, and slaughtering civilians for decades with absolutely no meaningful pushback from anyone.
Ukraine is simply able to push back.
Of course, the problem is that stopping Russia doesn’t benefit a very small group of people, and that’s evident by Trump’s behavior. This very small group of people is willing to do literally anything and everything to protect what they have, purely for their own selfish purposes and nothing more.
It’s obvious that Zelensky is no longer playing ball with this nonsense of the 1% doing whatever the hell they want. Good for him. It’s time to put these people in their place and take their money away from them.
Understand one very important thing that’s happening here: stopping the USA at this point in time benefits the entire planet.
They’ve been going around attacking countries, killing people, and slaughtering civilians for decades with absolutely no meaningful pushback from anyone.
Ukraine is simply able to push back.
Of course, the problem is that stopping the USA doesn’t benefit a very small group of people, and that’s evident by Trump’s behavior. This very small group of people is willing to do literally anything and everything to protect what they have, purely for their own selfish purposes and nothing more.
Throw in China, too. What’s one more in the fray?
One big difference is that China attacks (what they consider to be) their own people.
Sure, I’m not even going to disagree with you, except for the fact that we weren’t talking about the US in this post.
As a matter of fact, I was admonishing the US and its decision to betray the Ukrainians.
I will say this, however: regardless of how you feel about the US and your animosity toward it, Ukraine has been able to defend itself against Russia, in large part, because of the support it received from the United States.
Russia is a threat not just to the US, but to the rest of the world as well.
And as bad as the US really is, you’ll get no argument from me on that point, but we still have the capacity to do the right thing, at least to some degree. Keep in mind that this current administration is, in my opinion, the worst I’ve ever seen in my lifetime, and I’ve lived through quite a few presidents.
Sometimes it’s helpful to hold up a mirror.
(Not to suggest Russia or China can’t also be baddies)
Adding to this. Step back a moment and notice that this is, in part, the same playbook being used everywhere else: California vs Florida, Red vs Blue; US vs Ukraine vs Russia.
These are distractions. We need to eat the rich. They are the problem and we outnumber them.
Good. And this time, don’t fucking stop until Putin is a distant memory.
I hope putin stops this violence and suffering. If not I hope Ukraine and trusted allies can get drones and whatever they need to eliminate key equipment and creative tactics they come up with to push putin out. I want all casualties to stop in this and everywhere. The violence comes from egoic pride, revenge, dualism, supernatural excuses and other unhealthy indoctrinated ways that can be stopped, and are chosen as adults. Stop letting ego and the pain body of revenge cause all this suffering as Tolle teaches. Be excellent to each other!
I guess Ukraine figured out how to cheese SpaceX’s shitty grok customer service AI bot.
Slava Ukraini
