Musk called Sikorsky a little man after talking about Starlink

The head of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Sunday, March 9, called Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski a little man in response to his publication on the social network X (ex. Twitter) about the Stralink satellite communication system.

Sikorski said that Poland's Ministry of Digitalization pays for Stralink's services, and the system costs the agency about $50 million per year. The minister added that Warsaw will look for a replacement for Starlink if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable communications provider.

"Keep it down, little man (small man. — Ed.). You pay only a small part of the cost. And there's no substitute for Starlink," Musk wrote on X.

In addition, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio replied to Sikorsky on the same social network that no one had threatened to disconnect Ukraine from this system, and without Starlink's services, Kiev would have lost the conflict. Musk, in turn, confirmed Rubio's statements.

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The founder of SpaceX wrote on Twitter earlier that day that the Starlink system is the "backbone of the Ukrainian army" and its front line will collapse if this system is disabled.

Before that, on March 8, the Financial Times newspaper reported that European officials were looking for alternative satellite communications options for Ukraine. Four operating companies from the UK, France, Spain and Luxembourg are participating in the negotiations.