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SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million (arstechnica.com)

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SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million::Starlink has a fraction of the projected $12B revenue and 20M users, WSJ says.

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[+] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works -14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Y'all all really think there isn't something more going on there? Like people being like "Crimea is Ukraine!" Well yes I agree with the sentiment, even the US government doesn't consider crimea to be Ukraine

Edit: After looking further I do see the US stance is that Crimea is Ukraine, however they have specifically not been providing weaponry with the intent of retaking Crimea (at least until recently where it seems they've taken a looser stance on it) similarly to how they weren't providing weaponry to attack Russia, the whole idea was that we were helping them defend themselves "only".

[–] vitriolix@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

even the US government doesn’t consider crimea to be Ukraine

*citation needed

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Look at how we handle Taiwan for an idea of how wishy-washy the US government is in these situations.

Biden has said we support Taiwan and it's independence, then directly after that our government walks it back to avoid escalating tensions with China.

Sorry I was definitely wrong about the US's stance overall on Crimea, however we specifically were not providing armaments that could/would be used to attack Crimea

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/us/politics/ukraine-crimea-military.html

My initial statement was based on my incorrect memory of what was said after the initial faux-"referendum" that caused it to be annexed (forcefully taken) by Russia (which they tried to pretend was by the people living in crimea), as the US didn't do much except slap a few sanctions on Russia.

I'll edit my initial comment to better reflect the truth.