Borrowed Signals, Fuzzy Control Ukraine's wartime communications still depend on systems it does not control, while U.S. officials cannot clearly explain who authorized the latest Starlink and StarShield disruptions. Even the Pentagon's inspector general declined to investigate, pushing the issue elsewhere in the AP report. The result is familiar: Kyiv relies on foreign infrastructure, foreign politics and conflicting explanations from people above its pay grade. A country fighting a war with outsourced communications gets a dependency presented as a strategy.

Borrowed Signals, Fuzzy Control Ukraine's wartime communications still depend on systems it does not control, while U.S. officials cannot clearly explain who authorized the latest Starlink and StarShield disruptions. Even the Pentagon's inspector general declined to investigate, pushing the issue elsewhere in the AP report. The result is familiar: Kyiv relies on foreign infrastructure, foreign politics and conflicting explanations from people above its pay grade. A country fighting a war with outsourced communications gets a dependency presented as a strategy.