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The US government has literally unlimited money, like they can print as much as they want. They can just put up their own satellite network and use it to wage wars on the other side of the world. Why is it the responsibility of a private entity to enable death and destruction in a country on the other side of the world?

Side note: How the heck is the anti-capitalist camp somehow aligned with the pro-war camp now?

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> [The US government] can just put up their own satellite network and use it to wage wars on the other side of the world. Why is it the responsibility of a private entity to enable death and destruction in a country on the other side of the world?

The US military doesn't build their own hardware, they contract that out to companies. If the US government were buying a very large number of satellites, they'd be buying it from a company like SpaceX.

(Spoilers: they are! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities)

> How the heck is the anti-capitalist camp somehow aligned with the pro-war camp now?

I think both of those labels are way too generalistic. "I think people should cap out at a billion dollars" isn't anti-capitalistic. It's anti unrestrained capitalism.

Similarly, "we should aid Ukraine in defending itself against an invasion" isn't "pro-war". It's accepting of reality, i.e. there is a war no matter your feelings on it. And letting an aggressor do whatever they want is likely to lead to more war.

Anyway, the anti-capitalist camp being aligned with the pro-war camp is nothing new. The Soviets were both.

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