Musk and Rubio spar with Polish minister over Ukraine’s use of Starlink

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and billionaire technology Elon Musk made a controversial exchange with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslao Sikorsky, in a series of X posts on Sunday about using the Musk’s Starlink Satellite system in Ukraine.

In a response to a post from Musk, which mentions the suspension of the system, SIKORSKI implicitly that any Starlink threats will lead to the search for other suppliers.

Rubio quickly rejected the allegations that Musk would close the system and urge Sikorski to be grateful.

The trio went back and forth in the exchange of posts on X, which ended with the musk of Sikorski description as “a small man”.

Starlink is part of the SPACEX mission to provide a high -speed internet for remote and organized areas that suffer from a lack of service – such as war areas – around the world.

Sunday’s exchange began when Musk published that Starlink was the “backbone of the Ukrainian army”.

He wrote: “Their entire front line will collapse if it stops it.”

Sikorsky then responded to the position of Musk, saying that Poland was paying the price of service.

“A price is paid by the Polish Ministry of Digitization in Ukranees to Ukraine at a cost of about $ 50 million a year,” Sikorsky wrote. “Ethics threatening the victim of aggression, regardless of, if Spacex proves that it is an unreliable provider, we will have to search for other suppliers.”

The Sikorsky Publication caused Rubio to harmonize, and he wrote that the Polish Foreign Minister was “just manufacturing things.”

“No one has raised any threats about Ukraine’s cutting off from Starlink,” Rubio wrote.

“I tell you because without Starlink, Ukraine has long lost this war and the Russians will be on the border with Poland now,” he added.

Musk later responded to the Sikorsky Center, describing it as a “small man”.

“Be calm, a young man. You pay a small part of the cost. There is no alternative to Starlink,” Musk wrote.

Starlink stations are the key to army operations in Ukraine and have been used since the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022.

There are tens of thousands of stations in the country, including up to 500 purchased by the US Department of Defense in June 2023.