The *Pentagon* refused up to now to recklessly give the Ukrainian Military unlimited *Starshield* integration on top of all the early warning, not-admitted-to targeting within Russia and air defense evasion support they already receive So the Ukrainians take it upon themselves to hack the Starlink terminals they are saturated with for civilian use AND depend on utterly for military comms on the battlefield, so they can also embed them in long-range drones for bigger strikes and strikes *inside* pre-2022 Russia They do this to an ever-increasing degree until SpaceX finally patches that security breach, because not only is this an ungrateful violation of the terms of service to weaponize the service directly when its already weaponized directly on the battlefield quite enough, into doing something even the Pentagon wasn't fully supportive of (but the CIA was) But its a practice that would mean the inevitable reaction to allowing this erasure of the distinction between Starlink and Starshield would be the Russian Military first designating all Starlink ground stations in reach as priority airstrike targets, followed by devoting itself to figuring out a final solution against SpaceX with a combination of mass jamming, cyberwarfare, and ultimately literally blowing Starlink satellites out of the sky en masse Bearing in mind that it has already been its own quiet jamming war-within-a-war of countermeasure-vs-countermeasure between SpaceX's cracked engineers and a nuclear superpower's cracked engineers this whole time Note that Starlink has been SO valuable that the Russians themselves figured out how to sneak-use it on the small-unit level for a while until SpaceX figured out how to cut them off. And now Russia's putting up its own Starlink-esque constellation quickly, if roughly, already bearing fruit helping its own deep drone strike capabilities So, if civilian Starlink had continued to be used for deadly strikes on Russia without official U.S. government authorization, which has *only now* essentially been given, apparently, it would be interpreted as being with Elon's blessing, and therefore by next year SpaceX civilian sats would be suffering catastrophic interference unlikely to be geo-limited to Ukraine/Russia. Also imagine ceaseless nation-state level cyberattacks coming down on everything SpaceX. Neutral nations and Russian allies would then no doubt be pressured to lock SpaceX out of their markets too, in a time when Starlink can't get into India already And if it escalated up to kinetic strikes in orbit being needed to end the SpaceX threat, that would have to be responded to as the beginning of a SPACE WAR between Russia and the United States. Which would be followed by multi-billions in collateral damage losses and worldwide economic disruption from all the orbital debris from both sides killing satellites destroying other people's satellites too, even if the whole thing was short-lived But "Slava Ukraini" or something