But people act as if this was some crazy thing to nationalise infrastructure are silly. The US has less history of that then others but the exception you made are pretty fucking big. And of course other countries then the US exists.
Penn Central is bigger Starlink ever was. Yes it was failing, but it could have been sold for parts.
> And Elon/SpaceX doesn’t get to decide foreign policy via Starlink, at least not since Starshield. Maybe he has influence with Trump, but not direct control of how the government does or doesn’t use Starshield.
Pretty sure the Ukranians are using both Starshild and normal Starlink.
> Maybe he has influence with Trump
And a big reason he has influence is that he controls critical infrastructure. That will always get him a seat at the desk. Not sure why this is hard to understand.