Vance: Starlink Use in the War Comes Down to US Policy Toward Kyiv, Moscow – Not Musk
Speaking to reporters before departing for a rally in North Platte, Nebraska on Thursday, Oct. 22, US Vice President JD Vance said that the dispute over Ukraine’s Starlink restrictions should not fall on SpaceX CEO Elon Musk himself, framing the issue as a matter of US policy on the war. He called Europe’s reliance on the company ironic, while also noting that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to negotiate after senior US envoy Steve Witkoff’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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