• Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday praised Elon Musk, calling the Tesla and SpaceX founder a “talented businessman.”
  • Putin was discussing Russia’s space program after a failed moon landing last month.
  • His comments come after Musk said last week that he refused an emergency request by the Ukrainian government to extend coverage of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to Sevastopol in Crimea.
    • deft@ttrpg.network
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      He is but Putin is saying this now to sow divide. Fuck Elon take Starlink and his wealth from him, but he is overall helping Ukraine. What he did was an egotistical shitty bitch move and Putin is trying to use it as a weapon.

      Just pointing it out, that’s how Putin operates

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          He supplied them with Starlink, the same means he fucked them up with has provided them aid.

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            Supplied them? That’s a funny way of saying was paid for his services and then declined to provide said service randomly.

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              (I’ll preface this by saying, I hate musk and he’s definitely a Russia bitch boy)

              Except he didn’t randomly stop the service. He had never activated service in the area they wanted in the first place. This user gave a better write up than I could

              https://lemmy.world/comment/3259657

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                Oh that makes it so much better /s.

                Whether he never turned it on, turned it off, or never made it available to begin with, my feelings don’t change. He personally made the call that led to Ukrainian deaths while pretending to be a saint by his own admission. He’d have blood on his hands either way but at least that blood would have been soldiers who invaded a neighboring country not peaceful civs under attack by the very thing they were trying to destroy. So his reasoning doesn’t add up in my mind.

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                  why are you acting like any of us are defending him lol

                  we’re just starting truths and you’re like angry at us. Chill out

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              Exactly the CURRENT issue. Before this point he was providing aid.

              Don’t try to do that

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        Fuck Elon take Starlink and his wealth from him,

        Then send him back to South Africa, and force him to work the Emerald mine that helped build his wealth.