Marco Rubio SHUTS DOWN Claims White House Deliberately Disrupted Starlink in Ukraine

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Oct 18, 2026
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On StarShield, what's going on?
Because Elon Musk said it's up to the president.
Well, StarShield or Starlink?
Well, just both.
Well, yeah, I know, it's confusing.
So Starlink is a commercial product, okay?
And so it's regulated and handled as a commercial product.
StarShield is a defense product, a military product.
And as I said, I mean, that is something that we have a military,
United States military uses.
It's not at this moment available to Ukraine,
and that's under conversation.
It's under discussion right now
about how they would want to use it.
No, but did the U.S. have anything to do
with it not working in Ukraine at the moment?
Zelensky said it was deliberate.
Well, I don't know what Zelensky said.
I'm not sure Zelensky knows what he's talking about,
but it wasn't deliberate.
We had nothing to do with it.
The United States, nobody ordered
that Starlink speed to be slowed down.
It sort of happened.
But my understanding is it's been restored.
It's back to where it was before.
That's Starlink, though.
They were using Starlink for their drones.
Has Starshield been restored?
Starshield is a totally different product.
Starshield is a contract with the U.S. military.
It has nothing to do with Ukraine.
I know Ukraine wants access to Starshield.
They do not have Starshield now.
They've asked for access to it in order
to conduct deep strikes inside of Russia.
They do not have access to it at this moment.
Those are two different products.
But you have to have a theory as to why,
obviously, Ukraine has reported disruption.
Yeah, I don't know what the theory is,
but it has nothing to do with the White House.
I saw a report on that the other day. It's just categorically false.
No one at the White House ordered anyone to slow down internet
or slow down speed so that certain drones couldn't use it.
But my understanding is it's back up and running.
That's what we heard two days ago.
