Musk is now blaming US sanctions, and President Biden for not ordering him to turn on service, for turning off Starlink service in Crimea. This is of course total BS in a long list of changing stories on why he did it. If it were sanctions, all of Russia would apply to the Starlink blackout, including Königsberg.
If he had just said something like allowing Starlink service would have subjected arms export restrictions and COCOM export controls, that would have been understandable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordi...xport_Controls
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U.S. sanctions on Russia meant that Starlink satellite connection near Crimea could not be turned on for a Ukrainian military operation without permission from the U.S. president, Elon Musk said at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Sept. 12.
"The sanctions include Crimea, and we are not allowed to turn on the connection to a sanctioned country without explicit government approval," the billionaire owner of SpaceX, which operates Starlink satellites, told the audience.
The Ukrainian government asked for the connection to be turned on "in the middle of the night," for what Musk said was "a Pearl Harbor type attack on the Russian fleet in Sevastopol."
Ukraine was "asking us to take part in a major act of war," he said, adding that "if I had received a presidential directive to turn it on, I would have done so," he added.
The businessman was responding to recent reports that he had secretly instructed his engineers to turn off Starlink satellite communications near Crimea in 2022 to prevent a Ukrainian submarine drone attack against Russian military ships.
As the drones loaded with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they "lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly," Walter Isaacson wrote in a newly published biography titled "Elon Musk."
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