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Basically anyone who doesn't have a motivation to twist the truth? Like the US government who can actually provide hard proof that they paid for the hardware? Why would we believe Elon in this case?

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But there isn't proof that he is lying - you deciding whether he lied or not is your judgement call. If you may recall, the initial shipment of Starlinks were sent in response to request by Mykhailo Fedorov - Ukraine's Minister of Digital Transformation. Before US govt got involved. So I would tend to take Musk at his word.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/02/27/elon-musk-deploys-s...

No one is saying that he is definitively lying about the $80m. Why do you keep saying that?

All I'm saying is that his tweet is not a reliable source for that number. We'd need another, more reliable source to confirm.

Fair enough!

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