And that Musk is going to do it. Why does he put all that crap on his website unless it is to suck in the 95%? Pure showmanship, which is why Tesla is a success.
The rockets are brilliant, though, and so is Starlink. The antennae, even the ones we use on earth, are out of this world.
Putin does not want to invade Europe – as you say, who would want it? He did not want to invade Ukraine, but NATO and Biden’s autopen forced his hand. Now Ukrainians are going to suffer a hard winter as he can’t afford to lose any more refineries and needs to end it quickly, even at the cost of hundreds of thousands of civilians’ deaths through hunger and cold. Rus started in Kiev. Kiev is the cultural ancestor of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.