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Re:Ukraine Discovers Starlink on Downed Russian Shahed Drone... by throw73737 on Friday September 27, 2024 @09:37AM (#41670282)
In a few months US will have an anti-islamic version of Putin. He is the one who withdrew from treaties you linked.

> consideration to the harms done to non-combatants, both in the sense of "civilians" and "neutral countries".

Knocking down Starlink is perfect version of no-harms strike. Nobody dies, only person negative affected is Musk and some techno bros.

Re:Ukraine Discovers Starlink on Downed Russian Shahed Drone... by inemesitaffia on Friday September 27, 2024 @12:37PM (#41672643)
I'm here. I'll be affected along with 4 million others
Re:Ukraine Discovers Starlink on Downed Russian Shahed Drone... by ben_w on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:57PM (#41673667)
> In a few months US will have an anti-islamic version of Putin

With 45% probability, assuming he isn't assassinated.

The tie with Musk would make your hypothetical very convenient for Iran as an empty threat though, so there's that.

> Nobody dies

Loads of people die from communication failures.

More importantly, this would only even be a threat if it could actually cause a kessler cascade, because there's too many Starlink satellites to target directly even if you own SpaceX.

This matters because such a cascade will also mess up everything else in close orbits regardless of nationality.

It's like hypothesising someone might use CFCs as a chemical weapon: sure, if they want to make enemies with basically everyone all at the same time.