Summary
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called for respect among allies after a heated exchange between U.S. and Polish officials over Ukraine’s reliance on Elon Musk’s Starlink.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio rebuked Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski for suggesting Ukraine might need an alternative provider, calling him “ungrateful.”
Musk dismissed concerns and insisted Starlink would not be shut off after threatening to do so.
Meanwhile, speculation about a Starlink replacement caused a surge in Eutelsat’s stock.
It’s crazy how the US simultaneously wants the world to depend on them while also treating them like second class Allies. But the moment those allies say it’s not worth it and try to form other alliances, the US calls them ungrateful and cries. If you’ve ever seen or been in a abusive relationship, this is what it looks like on a nation to nation situation
US simultaneously wants the world to depend on them while also treating them like second class Allies.
That’s a core principle of colonialism: The colony acts as a cheap resource provider and sales market for the colonizer at the same time while having no actual autonomy.
We also can see a similar dynamic in modern globalism where production facilities were moved to countries where labour is cheap. Which is the reason many people call globalism colonialism 2.0.
Quite frankly, if europe wants to cry about being colonies maybe they should’ve thought before they acted.
Donald Tusk has to be a difficult name to have in this tineline.
I’m sorry…Donald tusk?
Yeah; Latvia needs to elect an Elon Mump next….
PM of Poland.
I guess many Americans haven’t heard of him, which is odd given Poland is the first bastion against Russia and a very strong US ally. Well was anyway.
My polish knowledge starts and stops at ‘kurwa bober’
Every time I see the words Secretary of State Marco Rubio I almost do a spit take.
I can only imagine what happens when you see the words, President of the United States Donald Trump.
Your dry cleaning bill must be astronomical.
Was it actually a US-Poland spat?
I thought it was just Musk running his mouth on Twitter as per.
If that’s the case I think it’s a dangerous game for the wider world to conflate Musk’s actions with the US as a whole
Edit: Seems like it was also US official/s taking part. What a wonderful world we live in 🙃
It was both Musk and Marco Rubio - the “adult in the room” Secretary of State so yeah, it looks like an official stance of the US government.
