Ofcourse if they werent paying him he has the right to shut it down. He is running a business not a charity. US spending over $100 billion in Ukranine but didnt want to pay him for some reason.
Musk stated he was giving Ukraine Starlink for free. Then he tried to stick both Ukraine and the U.S. with a bill that was over 10X the proper amount. Effectively Musk tried to screw everyone including the U.S. taxpayer. His business behavior is no different than Trump's.
Let's see what well-respect professor of strategic studies, Phillips O'Brien, has to say about the situation in Ukraine in his latest update. Weekend Update 81: Much of the portrayed Russian success is based on prediction What we have seen to now is still a long-way from the success that is being portrayed https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-81-much-of-the-portrayed
Instead of building fortifications in Kharkov over the last two years (instead they stole all the funds), Ukrainians now decide to build them under large Russian drone presence:
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukrainian-defence-forces-destroyed-russian-1716109745.html Ukrainian Defence Forces destroyed Russian minesweeper Kovrovets
Let's catch up with today's U.K. Ministry of Defense update on Ukraine. Transcript: * Between 5-6 May 2024 at least 11 Russian soldiers had been shot as a result of 'friendly fire' incidents. In one incident on 06 May 2024 Russian military police were actively searching for a Russian soldier who killed 6 fellow Russian soldiers. The soldier is a former prisoner recruit in a Storm-Z unit attached to a Russian artillery battalion in Russian occupied Donetsk, Ukraine. In a separate incident near Polohy on 5 May 2024, a Russian soldier from the Russian 38th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade shot 5 soldiers after consuming alcohol. * Russian friendly fire incidents have occurred throughout the duration of the war in Ukraine. These incidents can have deadly consequences for civilian bystanders. In mid-August 2023 Chechen fighters and Russian soldiers opened fire on each other following a drunken altercation in Urzuf, near Mariupol, reportedly leaving 11 dead, including four Russian soldiers and seven civilians. * These friendly fire incidents are symptomatic of a combination of low morale, alcohol abuse, as well as inter-ethnic tensions. The continuous use of embedded Storm-Z fighters on the battlefront with criminal records and a history of violence, has further exacerbated friendly fire incidents.