That’s actually not what I meant but is a consideration. What I meant is that it is very problematic that the US DoD has control of a communications system which is being marketed both to individual people in various parts of the world, as well as comprador governments. It’s also very concerning that so many of these satellites are being launched and clogging up low earth orbit. Not to mention the intelligence concerns of states whose interests are not aligned with those of the US military and intelligence apparatus. There are also pollution concerns on earth what with a stack of these being launched every week or so and the fact that even when SpaceX are ostensibly done with the buildout they’ll have to keep replacing older satellites. Overall it’s a project which needs to be met with much more criticism, which it is outside of the cheerleading western media.

Only one of many reasons why Starlink is a very concerning project.

It’s nothing new, it’s just bringing the neo-colonial instruments of the Breton Woods institutions into the 21st century.

If we want to talk about genuinely new financial systems we can look at BRICS+, Shanghai Cooperation Agreement, the multitude of bilateral currency swap agreements, and regional currency swap blocs.

Dedollarization and multipolarity are coming and they’re coming hard. The G7 are simply scrambling for any possible way to maintain their imperialist arrangements, but it’s not going to work.