Elon shut off Starlink and sabotaged Ukraine’s war.

In 2022 SpaceX activated Starlink in Ukraine; SpaceX initially ate a large part of the cost, then the U.S. and partners paid. It became critical for civil and military connectivity. Reporting in 2023 (including the Washington Post / Isaacson excerpts) described a request to enable coverage for a Ukrainian drone attack on Sevastopol. Musk declined to extend the network for that offensive, citing escalation. Coverage inside Ukraine continued.

Whether a private CEO should hold a veto on a geofence is a serious civil-military question. It is also the opposite of the viral sentence “he shut off Ukraine’s internet.” If your actual complaint is that public infrastructure should not sit on one man’s toggle, say that — and then talk about contracts, not a cartoon kill switch.