> Generally commercial / industrial uses include things like SLAs, guaranteed bandwidth, R&D for service during movement, etc.
It's a stretch to call any of these things value-add features since in this case they are basically provided to everyone equally (except prioritization which I addressed elsewhere). Presumably the "mobile" R&D is also paid for by the mobile plan which is $200/month not $4k/month (and which has already been researched and deployed without expectation of a major war to finance it).
But it's really easy to answer this question in practice: If there is so much value-add let them choose between the retail price and the government-special price with the SLA guarantees, etc on a per terminal basis. I really don't see anybody being willing to pay 10x more except for a few select applications.
> If a military user wants data priority then it makes sense it'll cost them for that privilege.
It doesn't though. It's an arbitrary charge whose only functions are 1. price-rationing 2. investment inducement and 3. profit for SpaceX. I've explained why 1 and 2 don't apply here so it's just an arbitrary fee by SpaceX.
> The density of the LEO constellation can and is being increased, along with other R&D investments.
It isn't being increased for Ukraine, I don't see any evidence of investment to support Ukraine capacity and certainly not hundreds of millions of dollars worth.
> These investments undoubtedly include forecasting the higher pricing for industrial and military usage.
Yes it's the government subsidizing SpaceX (who will claim that they receive no government subsidies).