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Walter Isaacson is retracting the claim that Musk pulled plug on Ukraine drone raid [1]
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Date: 2023-09-12
From CNN. The new version is that Starlink was not initially set up to operate over Crimea, so drones were going to sail out of bounds. Musk denied ‘emergency request’ to expand boundaries as an ‘escalation’.
I’m not defending Elon here, just passing on this correction. Other news outlets are retracting some stories in wake of this change.
Starting off with geofencing that matched territory at the time makes some sense.
“To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not,” Isaacson posted on X, effectively reiterating what Musk had said. “They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet.”
“Based on my conversations with Musk, I mistakenly thought the policy to not allow Starlink to be used for an attack on Crimea had been first decided on the night of the Ukrainian attempted sneak attack that night,” Isaacson added in a follow up post. “He now says that the policy had been implemented earlier, but the Ukrainians did not know it, and that night he simply reaffirmed the policy.”
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