In my post earlier today on how the Trump administration is seeking to shift blame to Elon Musk for the restrictions placed on Ukraine’s access to the Starshield satellite system (the military application of Starlink, which Musk’s SpaceX developed and provides to the U.S. government), I noted that Trump officials had come up with a script in statements to the media, stressing “terms of use”:
This is the administration’s way of contending both that (a) Musk, not President Trump and the Pentagon, is responsible for the restrictions that Russia exploited to conduct massive strikes on civilian infrastructure that killed dozens of people and left hundreds of thousands without power; and (b) it’s really Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, not Musk, who is chiefly to blame because somehow — the administration isn’t saying how — Ukraine violated the “terms of use” (or terms of service) for Starshield.
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