Blindspot #034 - Musk's Starlink helps Ukraine war escalate in Space

Blindspot #034 - Musk’s Starlink helps Ukraine war escalate in spaceShow more

Buiteboer // From Bunker 42
www.buiteboer.co.za
28/4/22

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We cover the militarisation of space, how Musk, Twitter’s liberator hero, is not necessarily a hero for Russian forces due to the Space X Starlink system being put to work for Ukrainian forces. We also look at how Russia illustrated, in 2021, how it can destroy a satellite in space, warning that, like the Chinese, and Americans, Russia has the technology to strike at targets in space from solid ground on planet earth (if need be).

Blindspot looks at how Turkish drones, and numbers of destroyed Ukrainian military assets (including significant amounts of drones), and we wrap up with an economic war story, on how Israel announced recently that it will add the Chinese Yuan to its portfolio of reserve currencies. The latter ties in with the theme of Eurasia versus the West, and the bifurcation, or, tearing in two, of the global system.

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From the perspective of a hot proxy war on the ground in Ukraine it is easy not to pay attention to the role of ‘space’ in this conflict. Former President Donald Trump officially launched the US Space Force, which was at the time interpreted as a direct act of militarisation of space.

With Elon Musk deploying Space X’s Starlink internet constellation to provide ‘services’ to the Ukraine means that ‘the final frontier,’ space, as per Star Trek, has just become the final ‘wild west world war III’ frontier.