My guess is it would make it harder to sell any military version of Starlink if he’s giving it away to the Ukrainians. Didn’t he ask them to pay a while back and they refused?
Musk’s Starlink satellites accelerating development of drone warfare
C4ISRNet
By Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo
February 14, 2023
https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2023/02/14/musks-starlink-satellites-accelerating-development-of-drone-warfare/
“Such matters are also challenging considering that SpaceX has not only received significant subsidies from the U.S. government, but that the U.S. Agency for International Development reportedly also paid the company to send over 1,000 Starlink terminals to Ukraine.”