The automated splicers go for at least USD$5K. If I lived in a war zone and
my children were starving, anything I could get close to $5K for could well
be the difference between survival for my family or not. And the whole
other side doesn't exactly have respect for Ukranian property rights.

Fixed infrastructure is the wrong one for wartime. Which is why Starlink is
so important.

-- 
Bruce Perens K6BP