“Be quiet”, “Say: thank you”. Radosław Sikorski read such comments at his address on Sunday. Their authors are Elon Musk and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The sharp exchange of sentences began with the billionaire's entry, who suggested that Ukrainians without Starlinks would not be able to fight Russia.
“My Starlink system is the spine of the Ukrainian army. The entire front line would collapse if I turned it off,” he wrote on Sunday Elon Musk On the platform X. “I am fed up with years of slaughter in the face of a ongoing deadlock in Ukraine, which will inevitably lose” – he assessed. “Everyone who really cares, whoever repairs and really understands wants to stop this meat machine,” he added.
He reacted to the billionaire's entry after 12. Head of Polish diplomacy.
“Starlinki for Ukraine is paid by the Polish Ministry of Digitization,” he noted, adding that the Polish ministry allocates $ 50 million a year for this purpose. “Apart from the morality of threatening the victim of aggression, if SpaceX turns out to be an incredible supplier, we will be forced to look for others,” he wrote Radosław Sikorski.
According to the Ministry of Digitization, Poland currently maintains 25,000 sets Starlink In Ukraineand at the end of February another five thousand were ordered with this purpose.
Rubio corresponds to Sikorski and vice versa. Musk also joins
The American Secretary of State Marco Rubio reacted to the entry of the Polish minister after a few hours. He wrote: “Just making up. Nobody threatened to cut Ukraine from Starlinks.”
“And say 'thank you', because without Starlinks Ukraine would have lost this war a long time ago, and the Russians would now be on the border with Poland,” he added.
After an hour, Sikorski responded to this post, starting with “thank you”. “Thank you, Marco, for confirming that brave soldiers of Ukraine can count on the necessary internet service provided jointly by the US and Poland,” we read.
“Together, Europe and the United States can help Ukraine to achieve a fair peace” – added the minister.
Elon Musk also referred to the first of the entries of the head of Polish diplomacy.
“Be quiet, little man. You pay a small part of the costs. And there is no replacement for Starlinks,” he commented.
The richest man in the world also made available the entry of Rubio, referring to the words of Sikorski, and supported the opinion of the secretary of state. “What the secretary of Rubio says is absolutely right,” he wrote.
Spacex, Muska, has been provided by the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the beginning of Ukraine, connected to the Starlink satellite network. These devices provide Ukrainian soldiers to maintain communication in difficult front conditions.
Discussions broke out. Muska: To make it clear, Starlink will never turn off its terminals
Musk's entry, from which the discussion began, caused a wave of comments also among other users of the X platform.
In the response section to one of such internet users, Musk wrote before 18. In Poland: “To be clear, no matter how much I disagree with Ukraine's policy, Starlink will never turn off its terminals. I just say that without Starlinks Ukrainian lines would break down, because the Russians can drown out all other communication. “
“We would never do anything like this and use it as a bargaining card” he added.
“NYT”: Rubio furious at Muska and the intervening Trump
“New York Times” described the backstage of the Thursday meeting of the Trump's office, reporting about a quarrel that, according to the journal, fulfilled between Rubio and Musk. Rubio was to be “angry” as a billionaire. “Here, he sits next to the president in the office of the office of the office in the White House and listens to the litany of attacks from the richest man in the world,” writes “NYT”. Musk was to call Rubio into a board for not reducing full -time jobs in federal agencies.
Rubio, however, did not remain passive on Musk's allegations and – as the newspaper said – “he threw his regrets”, and their discussion continued.
In the end, however, Trump intervened, putting himself in Rubio and saying that he did a “great job”. “Everyone just has to cooperate” – he cites his statement “NYT”. At the same time, the president stipulated that Musk has the right to give resorts recommendations regarding employment reduction, but not to make decisions independently.
The New York daily claims that the rage of the head of American diplomacy on Musk has been going on for several weeks and is related to the influence of the billionaire on the work of the United States Agency for International Development. USAID is the largest state aid institution in the world, whose work after Trump's coming to power has been very difficult.
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