https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/order-limit-starshield-...
OP's article of course is about spectrum allocation in the US and potential trade retaliation, which isn't all that related to Musk's control of Starlink.
> Andrew Puzder’s warning comes after the European Commission this year proposed reserving part of its spectrum band that allows smartphones to connect directly to satellites for European players. That would limit the frequencies for Chinese and US companies such as SpaceX, which operates the Starlink satellite network.
> Asked whether European companies should fear retaliation, Puzder told the FT that they “should be wary that it could happen and it would be very devastating for those companies”, given the size of the American market.
Eh, this seems like a fairly even tit-for-tat, for once.
Would this even be "devastating"? Would any of them been able to sell in the US anyway, given the position Starlink is in? I see occasional headlines that Starlink is forcing out other US providers, from the US, but even without that kind of thing going on, this doesn't even feel like much of a threat.
Devastated companies can’t buy US products.
So go on and hit your exports again
And the big winner of this is China. I heard China is building its own starlink and I would not be surprised they will offer verifiable guarantees to the EU on spying should the EU want to use China's version.
China should be sending Trump all kinds of Thank You notes. Trump already gave China the lead in Medical Research, Trump is helping China to take over Chip Development and he just started handing China the lead in AI.
You get what you vote for. At least the US will be the leader in Bible Research.
Betelbuddy•26m ago
ranger_danger•19m ago
hparadiz•5m ago
Since then the United States has dismantled their Navy systematically several times.
At the moment they are
- Blockaded.
- Entire leadership dead.
- Major infrastructure bombed to rubble
- Inability to project power beyond a few random pot shots at neighbors that aren't even the US.
- Proxies neutered or entirely destroyed in Syria and Iraq.
- De facto leader still in hiding and afraid for his life even as I type this.
- Unable to field a single ship in their own home port.
Man if this is winning I wanna know what losing is.
mijoharas•2m ago
rebolek•2m ago
objclxt•2m ago
This is a very funny way of saying “has de facto control of one of the world’s most important shipping lanes”.