Can Musk afford to lose satellites and still go forward with the Twitter deal?
I guess it didn't occur to me until reading about this threat that it's a massive investor risk for an entrepreneur to be actively waging war against a superpower. I wonder if that wartime risk has been factored into investments connected to Musk.
Russia said it could target commercial satellites if they are used to help Ukraine, the latest in a string of threats aimed at curtailing the military aid sent by the U.S. and other countries, while both NATO and the Kremlin conducted nuclear drills.
Konstantin Vorontsov, an official in Moscow’s foreign ministry, told Russian state news agency TASS that if Western satellites are used to aid Kyiv, then they “may be a legitimate target for a retaliation strike.”
Though Mr. Vorontsov didn’t name any company, Elon Musk recently pledged that his company SpaceX would continue to fund access for the Ukrainian military to its Starlink satellite internet system. SpaceX didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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