Replying to @elonmusk Is there anything to stop it on starlink?

Musk replies "game on".

The russians have recently demonstrated their ability to physically take out satelites, and willingness to use it. If Putin did that, creating a lot of debris, US would loose the space advantage and we would push human advancement in to space back by perhaps 1000 years while we wait for the skys to clear.

US MUST stop provoking Russia.

"game on" is hard to interpret as anything but a flippant challenge to a dangerous man with military resources in space.

Is diplomacy that hard to grok?

Appeasing murderous dictators is also a good way to set back human advancement, on the ground and in space. Giving in just because your opponent might do something stupid is equally bad diplomacy.