Elon Musk, Starlink and US Policy in Ukraine

Light on the issues with Starlink that Ukraine has been having.

Elon Musk said any, uh, excuse me, Starshield,

said any decision on Starshield

would come from the Pentagon or the President.

Um, the Wall Street Journal said that it was discussed with him.

Do you agree with some Republicans that there should be an investigation?

Well, I, I think that fundamentally, Elon Musk runs a private

corporation, and I think it's completely understandable

that he doesn't wanna get

in the middle of what is a war between two state

actors without the United States government effectively directing him on

what to do. So I don't think this is about Elon.

I think it's fundamentally what is America's policy in Ukraine

and Russia gonna be?

As I just said earlier, I think we're working on some renewed

negotiations.

But I, I do find it a little ironic that the European countries who,

of course,

have nothing like the technology that Elon has d- developed in,

in Starlink and

Stargaze and, uh, uh, just all of the internet service

technologies that he's developed with SpaceX, these countries have

almost universally decided to wage regulatory and

licensing war against SpaceX, and now they're all running to SpaceX,

saying, "Please do what we need you to do." I

think this drives

home one of the things the president has talked about for years, which is that

European countries depend on American technology, American

businesses, and the American military, while at the same time European political

leaders love to bash the United States allies that they depend upon so much.