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Reporting from Ukraine reported something similar. He says the Ukrainians outflanked a Russian flanking maneuver southwest of Robotyne.Thread by @Tatarigami_UA on Thread Reader App
@Tatarigami_UA: 1/ As of September 7, 2023, based on satellite imagery from September 6th shared in this thread and comparative analysis, it is clear that Ukrainian forces are inflicting significant damage on russia...…
More info on the push south of Robotyne by a great source. Also I will note that many mappers have moved the serious fortifications south of Robo into gray zone or into Ukraine. I expect that by this weekend that clarifies. Also many mappers have significantly widened the salient.
Hope the Russians don't interrupt that as the war in Ukraine continues on
To be fair, only a minority of people were upset by that ("he's in for the fame!") but the backpedaling and "playing both sides".
This is the opposite of what happened, this entire episode occurred because Elon Musk *does not* want to make these life and death decisions, thus him asking "How am I in this war?". Shotwell made it very clear it is the government who should fund the military operation and make the decisions, not a private company, certainly not a private individual, that's why she wanted DoD to pay for Starlink and make the decisions. Except some idiot inside DoD leaked the negotiation and nearly sunk the deal, that person is the real traitor.
I don't fully understand what you are saying. Elon provided the service for free. Months later he asked to get paid and he got condemned by many people with his request for payment being misinterpreted or spun into him making a threat or ultimatum. As the anti-Elon fervor kept growing he gave in and said "okay okay we will keep providing the service for free" (or words to that effect).
That was not the choice. The choice was either Musk provide internet access via Starlink or none would be provided. The US military was not ready, willing, or able to do it.
Elon has been clear about what his approach would be in the context of FSD. He said that even if we save a thousand lives and cause one death, the thousand lives saved will be ignored and we will be blamed for the death. But we should do it anyway because it's the right thing to do.
As has been pointed out "no good deed goes unpunished".
This really disgusts me. How many children and other Ukrainian civilians have since died by missile attacks from the Russian navy? Elon's big ego, thinking he understands everything better than the actual victims of the invasion and, for that matter, the US authorities, means people die that did not have to. I love the cars and have loved being a stockholder but this is very close to a red line for me, if not already over it. Even those who do not agree should understand how many Europeans reason like me, not least in countries formerly occupied by Russia/Soviet, and how that will effect any Musk related brand, like Tesla, for years to come. What a stupid, stupid guy.
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Strongly disagree. It is not up to Elon to openly pick a side in a global conflict. Let the US military do so, as a customer of SpaceX's Starlink, or the Ukranian military.
CNN are fake news. He never enabled Starlink in Russian controlled Crimea so saying that he ordered engineers to turn it off is not true. The Ukrainian military wanted him to enable it in a specific Russian controlled area so they could send drone ships with starlink in that region, when they had agreed not to use starlink as part of miltary equipment. Elon has helped Ukraine a lot, but no good dead goes unpunished by his detractors. That he still chooses to help them says a lot about him given how much *sugar* he has gotten for the help.
As far as I know, this has been reported by Isaacson too. Maybe I am mistaken?
