When you watch horror movies, do you ask whoever's around, "Why did that mean lady hit Jason with a 2x4?"

"I dunno Student. Do you think it has something to do with Jason HACKING HER FRIENDS APART WITH A MACHETE IN FRONT OF HER?"

"Well there's no need for her to be so mean..."

Yeah sure, if she just apologizes and lets the scary, 7-foot, masked murdered hack her apart everyone will just get along happily ever after.

I understand you are a person who wants peace, but people ARE NOT YOU. Not everyone values peace and love like you do and trying to just let them do what they want and hoping they go away has almost never worked out in the history of mankind.

Ukraine paid him for the terminals, and he charged more than the usual rate for them. He tried to claim the cost to run them was thousands of dollars a month when others can buy access for hundreds of dollars a month. Because of the the US moved in to pay. At no point was Starlink working for free except on Elon's Twitter profile when he was pretending to be magnanimous in the early stages of the war.