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It would be incredibly easy to miss hear something along these lines, so yes, this journalist may have fucked up.
He's not denying he didn't turn it on to protect the fleet.
You hear some conversation and he's saying no don't turn it on, I don't want them to hit the fleet and escalate the war yadda yadda yadda and that gets misconstrued to he actively turned it off.
He's openly admitted in the past that they actively were turning it off on the front lines as well. Crimea wasn't a front line, so that also jives with it already being off.
So you are saying that he made up the part about the sub drones washing ashore. Got it.
No?
The attack failed because there was no internet there and he didn't turn it on.
So your implication here is that a major military counter strike was predicated on the network being extended just as the drones were headed to their targets?
That the strike plan was put into action, and then a request was made to extend the network whilst they were already moving and as they were approaching a point of losing contact?
Does that really make sense to you?
From the biographer matching what Musk said and you've all been downvoting me for.
https://twitter.com/WalterIsaacson/status/1700342242290901361?s=20
No
But Ukraine not knowing it wasn't enabled in contested zones and then doing the attack and realizing it wasn't going to work does.
To them, that would look like it was turned off when contact was lost. They put in an emergency order and he says he won't turn it on.
Further to my other reply
There's already past proof that Ukraine didn't know that starlink would be off at the front lines.
So to say there's no way they wouldn't know is provably false
What very likely happened is an asset told them the ships were docked, they sent them, and shit went sideways.
Edit: unless Ukraine comes back and says they successfully sent a recon drone first all the way successfully there's no reason to believe they'd previously tested it so far, so early. A land asset makes more sense