I agree that people can be very irrational :) . But yet your leading phrase really deserves justification, smelling conspiracy theory from a mile.
> if he didn't capitulate on Ukraine then Russia would knock his satellites out of orbit
Kinda hard to comment on flagged origin.
Do you see why it's a conspiracy theory?
But Ukraine is literally using services from a SAR satellite right now, which is run by a private business.
https://www.universetoday.com/157208/ukraine-crowdfunded-a-1...
And yet theres 0 noise or even evidence anyones even thinking of blowing it out of the sky.