It began with a warning from a man who controls a constellation of satellites that has become as essential to modern warfare as ammunition itself. Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, posted that if Ukraine were to use Starlink to launch outright offensive strikes, then Russia would be justified in trying to shoot the network out of the sky. His argument was simple: Starlink must remain a civilian infrastructure, not a weapon system, or it will become a military target. The consequences of such escalation, he warned, would be catastrophic not just for Ukraine but for all of humanity. If…

There is a particular kind of dread that settles along a coastline when a distress call goes out. It arrives first as a raw electronic signal, fragmented across maritime radio channels, and then as a flurry of urgent messages between control rooms, rescue teams, and ships nearby. Last night, that dread touched the north-west coast of Ireland as a Russian oil tanker named Myra declared an emergency dozens of miles offshore. The seas were already turning angry. Storm Boelo had arrived, and Met Éireann had issued a status red marine warning for the region. Waves were mounting, wind was screaming…