{"id":156149,"date":"2026-08-16T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156149"},"modified":"2026-08-16T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:30:09","slug":"chokepoints-and-the-cost-of-cutting-off-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156149","title":{"rendered":"Chokepoints and the cost of cutting off access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostIn 2022, Ukraine asked SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to activate Starlink coverage around Sevastopol to support an attack on Russia\u2019s Black Sea Fleet. He refused, saying SpaceX would become \u201cexplicitly complicit in a major act of war\u201d; he later also cited US sanctions covering Crimea. At the moment that mattered, one private actor had the final say.<br \/>\nIt exposed a question hidden inside every chokepoint. We usually ask where dependence is concentrated: a strait, mineral, technology, network. But three&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3363772\/chokepoints-and-cost-cutting-access?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostIn 2022, Ukraine asked SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to activate Starlink coverage around Sevastopol to support an attack on Russia\u2019s Black Sea Fleet. He&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}