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Which shareholders of SpaceX should be suing the shit out for Musk for.
It’s happening, he’s finally driving SpaceX in to the ground too.
You know Starlink is limited to 100mph and, as a commercial satellite internet system, explicitly forbids its use for weapons, right?
Ukraine’s been spoofing geolocation on their Starlink terminals to get around this limitation, and SpaceX fixed the issue by monitoring how fast a terminal is switching between satellites.
Did you also know Starshield has no such limitations?
Did you know that Ukraine is specifically using the military version of Starlink so that this wouldn’t be a problem? What are you on about?
They use some starshield terminals. They mostly use starlink (cheaper).
Also, Teslas should be banned from Europe. Spyware on wheels
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No that’s not what I think. It also wasn’t my point. It’s that Elon is way out of control, and god knows what he will do with all that data. Block it now.
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Replacing US tech with European one is the sole reason I just came back to Lemmy.
I don’t like you guys on Lemmy but I condone the independence from US tech overlords.
I don’t like you too but I also do activism for technological autonomy
I am actually here, because I keep getting banned off the R website for my extreme views, but that’s certainly a nice side effect.
Admins on that site are cucks, lemme (or lemmy, rather, HAHAHAHA) wish death on bad people / things, ffs. Fuck ICE, fuck Trump, fuck Putin. Death to them.
Didnt germany just buy new fighter jets from the us for billions but without critical map data, with said killswitches, with undisclosed data sent to U.S. and not even the right to maintain them? Absolute crazy.
Germany bought a small number (35) US fighter jets as replacement for the aging Panavia Tornado used as bombers carrying US nuclear weapons as they are not allowed by their allies to have their own.
And they did so alongside ordering more Eurofighters (58 additional ones already ordered, more planned long-term) for all other roles (even ones where EF variants are still to be developed - EW for example which also is covered by Tornados at the moment) exactly for one reason: the alternative would be giving the US all details of the Eurofighter to get them certified for these bombs.
Context matters… and allies (France and UK in particular) are free to find another arangement than forcing Germany to use US equipment to fullfil NATO requirements. Alas… they won’t because… reasons…
In this insane world order created by Trump a lot of countries including Poland, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Germany will need to build their own nuclear weapons soon enough.
Oh fuck off, as if anyone with a brain needed a reason not to give Germans nukes. Germany has been very happy with not fulfilling NATO requirements for years (decades?), yet that one they sure felt was a priority. Blame anyone for your mistakes but yourself. Planning a vacation in Poland soon?
Sure, mate…
Letting Germany have the by far biggest army in all of Western Europe for decades as long as the cold war was ongoing: totally fine.
Screaming about Germany needing to demilitarize the moment the soviet union broke down and you don’t need them to defend you anymore: totally sane.
Complaining about Germany not doing enough for their army after forcing them to massively size it down the moment there is a possible threat on the horizon: sure, why not?
Also –just one second after complaining about not enough German military spending–: haha, Germany nazis! Applaud my genius!
If you don’t want to look like a total nutjob, at least be consistent…
Another one that fails to understand the full picture. For every US Dollar spent on NATO, $10.00 returned to the United States. The European Union NATO members combined have more aircraft, soldiers, and armored vehicles than the entire US military. Why the fuck do we need to spend more? There are three categories that we fall behind and those are naval forces, combat experiences and satellites. Thanks to you MAGA fucknuts and following your orders from Moscow and Peking, you lost the cash payouts and our trust. Go piss in the wind and we are going to build a stronger military without you clowns to deter your bosses sitting in Moscow. .
Germany bought a small number (35) US fighter jets as replacement for the aging Panavia Tornado used as bombers carrying US nuclear weapons as they are not allowed by their allies to have their own.
This is a very weird claim. If Germany wanted to build its own nuclear bombs, it could withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Germany could also have asked to host French nuclear missiles instead of US nuclear bombs, possibly as part of an EU-wide agreement rather than a bilateral deal.
If Germany wanted to build its own nuclear bombs, it could withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
They could, if there wasn’t a certain piece of paper their own allies (France and UK in particular) forced upon them as a a requirement for German reunification.
The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany restored the country’s full sovereignty. The positions it reaffirms don’t limit what Germany is allowed to do under other treaties. It doesn’t prevent Germany withdrawing from the NPT. It doesn’t prevent Germany from doing anything that other sovereign states can do.
So you say that one side of the treaty (restoring Germany’s sovereignity) is valid while the other side (Germany’s assurance to never have nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, banning nuclear weapons stationed in former Eastern Germany and so on…) isn’t?
That’s an interesting idea, although one were you might not find a lot of people agreeing. Especially not as the the German side of assurances also includes no territorial claims over any former German areas now belonging to Poland. Do they know that international law is seemingly bullshit and you can just pick which agreements to uphold?
I’m saying your interpretation of the treaty is incorrect. Immediately after the two sentences you quoted is a third one clarifying that the “rights and obligations arising from the [NPT] will continue to apply to the united Germany”, meaning that Germany retains the right to withdraw from the NPT under Article X like any other signatory.
The actual text says the opposite as it continues:
“[…]They declare that the united Germany, too, will abide by these commitments. In particular, rights and obligations arising from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of 1 July 1968 will continue to apply to the united Germany.”Sorry, but reading those two sentences as “we will abide by the renunciation of nuclear weapons, by keeping the right to withdraw from the NPT” is quite frankly insane.
Rheinmetall and their stupid investment associated with the F-35 played a big role in the decision to accept the flying maintenance pig.
I don’t understand his thinking. Every government in the world is going to try to find other platforms now that they know Musk can pull the plug if he feels so inclined.
No.
Every population will advocate for finding another platform. The governments however are
bribedboughtlobbied to act against their countries interest, so they won’t. Which weakens confidence in democracy even more.So showing off their insanity while still getting away with it is in fact a double-win for such fascist-adoring oligarchs. For the same reason all those deeply corrupt right-wingers have no problem openly showing their corruption now. It has long become part of their “democracy doesn’t work”-messaging.
Musk treats critical infrastructure like a toy he can switch off whenever his ego needs attention. And the US calls this a strategic partnership: make Europe dependent on American corporations, then remind everyone who holds the kill switch. With allies like these, who needs hostile powers? We need: https://sovereignty.it/ 🔥
Just? He’s been providing receipts for at least a couple of years.
Musk and Trump’s apparent strategy of not being reliable is also why Canada has been making more deals outside the US lately.
Companies should have an inherent interest in at least appearing to be reliable partners. Some theoretical NSA backdoors, sure, these never concerned 99% of European companies or customers. But this behavior makes it clear, that anything goes if it serves a political, economical, narcissistic or really no purpose at all. We now need to move all our infrastructure off US systems and companies. Anything else is reckless.
Lol like we needed a reason
The reasons were obvious for decades but just renting AWS instead of making expensive investments was winning every single time.
“The message heard loud and clear here in Europe was that the U.S. is an unreliable security and technology partner willing to throw any partner under the bus, at any time, for any reason.” I am sorry, but this has been the business model from the start
