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Trump White House Made Horrific Decision to Cut Ukraine’s Internet

Someone in the White House is crippling Ukraine’s access to military-grade Starlink terminals. Leaders at the Department of Defense received an order from inside the White House to slow the Starshield satellite system that Ukraine uses for battlefield communications and drone operations, two U.S. officials and a Western official briefed on the matter…

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