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Elon Musk’s noble reason to reject IDR 2.2 trillion from US to help Ukraine via Starlink: Okezone techno

GOVERNMENT It turns out that the United States (US) has prepared 145 million US dollars or the equivalent of 2.2 trillion IDR for Elon Musk so that his satellite Internet company, Starlink willing to help Ukraine. The United States hopes that thousands of Starlink satellites in Earth orbit could help Ukraine fight a Russian invasion.

But Elon Musk rejected the offer. The CEO of Starlink and Tesla actually provides free Starlink services. It’s just that this service is provided not specifically for Ukraine, but also for Russia.

This is revealed in the biography of Elon Musk written by Walter Isaacson which will be released on September 12, 2023. In this biography, Elon Musk reveals many reasons why he ended up in the vortex of the Russian and Ukrainian crises.

Including the reasons why they chose to make Starlink services free rather than accept an offer of IDR 2.2 trillion from the United States.

“The Pentagon really wanted to hand us a check for IDR 2.2 trillion. But Elon Musk ultimately had a different attitude,” Starlink President Gwynne Shotwell said.

It is said that Elon Musk has strong reasons not to take sides and not take this huge amount of funds. He doesn’t want the Starlink service he has to be more useful to both parties.

In the book it is shown that Elon Musk suddenly shut down the Starlink service when he learned secret information that an attack by Ukrainian underwater drones complete with large explosive devices would attack the Russian fleet.

Elon Musk was mentioned by Walter Isaacson in the book as being concerned that the attack would have an even greater effect. He described it as the second volume of Pearl Harbor. Elon Musk then secretly asked Starlink to shut down all available networks.

“As a result, the underwater drones lost connectivity and were stranded on the beach without power,” Walter Isaacson wrote.

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Also in the same book, Elon Musk himself is still faced with a dilemma. He realized that the Starlink services he provided in the Ukrainian and Russian crises could be used by both sides.

Indeed, he wants Internet services in this area to be used properly by the Ukrainian people so that they can continue their business as usual.

Children can continue their studies and the general public can relax thanks to the available Internet.

“Starlink is not meant to be involved in a war. It’s so people can watch Netflix and relax and go online to school and do good, peaceful things, not drone strikes,” Elon Musk said.

“I don’t know why I can find myself in the middle of this war,” Elon Musk explained.

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