Starlink Has Privatized Geopolitics
"A private company is now a gatekeeper in orbit, helping decide who connects as well as where, under what conditions, and with what technical constraints. In a growing number of conflicts, these decisions carry military and political effects that states struggle to replicate or control...Starlink is an unusually concentrated case of private discretion over public security functions."
The Clash of Hypocrisies: As Washington abandons any pretense of a just global order, citizens around the world will continue to demand one.
"The mask of international cooperation supported a hypocritical system in which powerful nations routinely broke the rules. Yet these same nations needed to justify their violations through moral acrobatics that, paradoxically, reinforced the system’s values"