Geopolitics
The Starlink Doctrine: How Corporate Power Became America's Neo-Colonial Cudgel
The U.S. government, across both the Biden and Trump administrations, has repeatedly used SpaceX's private Starlink satellite network as a geopolitical weapon, selectively enabling or disabling access for nations and groups to advance its foreign policy objectives, including in Ukraine and Iran. This alarming fusion of corporate power with statecraft epitomizes the West's neo-colonial toolkit, where a single billionaire and his company can become arbiters of life and death on the battlefield, undermining national sovereignty and exposing the dangerous hypocrisy of a 'rules-based order' dictated by Washington and its corporate proxies.
