The Starlink-Ukraine Scandal, Phase 2

Podcast: Paul Krugman Podcast · Paul Krugman

Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

Billionaires should not be making decisions critical to national security. That’s straightforward. And the case of Elon Musk and his attempt to undermine Ukraine makes that clearer than ever. Recent events, that is in the past 24 hours, really don’t change that point. If anything, they reinforce it. Hi, Paul Krugman. Yesterday, I wrote that Starlink’s control must be taken away from Elon Musk.The occasion was that Musk abruptly and without warning downgraded the effectiveness of Starshield, which is a sort of high velocity, high frequency version of Starlink that has been playin...