If Elon was more diligent and spent less time philandering with the far-right he could have anticipated this and provided an appropriate solution or alternative.
This meme of hating someone for having different politics is getting very old. Why didn’t you save the world with all the clear headedness that comes from having the correct politics?
Starlink wasn't developed primarily for the military. Ukraine is literally using a commercial product. That commercial product has prevented electronic warfare better then anybody expect and better then all other competing products.
But its the CEO personal politics that is responsible for a nation states being able to sometimes block a consumer product after multiple years of warfare.
He's probably hesitant to do something that would be likely to bring his company's satellites closer to being seen as combatants in a proxy war between major powers, seeing as they were being used as an important part of Ukraine's drone warfare in this case, and actively countering Russia's countermeasures would be likely to move the status of him and his business interests from "relatively neutral" to "Axis of Evil".
