There are, as best I can fathom, three possible options for what you are about to read from Texas Senator John Cornyn.
The outgoing senator sent this public statement via his X Account:
[SOURCE]
It is the official position of the United States government that Ukraine has never had access to the “Starshield” global satellite system used by the United States military for communication and global guidance targeting. Giving Ukraine access to Starshield would be akin to the United States operating missile and drone targeting of nuclear armed Russia.
For obvious reasons the U.S. government would not want to escalate to direct military conflict with a nuclear-armed power.
Senator John Cornyn is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Cornyn has been a long-time tenured member of the Republican Senatorial Leadership Team. There are three options behind this X message:
Option #1 – Senator John Cornyn genuinely doesn’t know that Ukraine has never had access to “Starshield.” The implications within this possibility are alarming, especially when you consider his senate office staff wouldn’t stop him from making a public fool of himself.
Option #2 – Assuming he’s not made a mistake. Senator John Cornyn has just publicly exposed a deep state, highly classified secret, outlining to Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin that the United States has indeed been operating the Ukraine targeting system against Russia all along. This has major implications.
Option #3 – Again, assuming he’s not made a mistake. Senator John Cornyn has just exposed that elements within the United States government are controlling military operations and operating without the knowledge of President Donald Trump and Secretary of state Marco Rubio.
You choose.
One thing is very clear, someone from Vladimir Putin’s office is very likely calling someone in the White House chain of command to gain clarity. Maybe that ‘friction’ and/or ‘deconfliction’ problem is the reason Cornyn wants to kick sand?
.@SecRubio on defense product Starshield: "It's not at this moment available to Ukraine." pic.twitter.com/J1OPYEXg90
— CSPAN (@cspan) October 18, 2026
The timing suggests the fourth option you just mentioned casually. To thwart any progress on peace by hoping to piss off Putin. Won’t work because i’m sure Putin already knew or suspected.
I lean towards #3. My first career interest from late high on (I know this sounds like precocious BS, but it’s true) was strategic political intelligence. I recall my first formal sit-down class in national security policy, the text book had a chapter on the National Security Act of 1948 which established the legal basis for the institutional structures through which the Cold War would be waged. The CIA was formed under it and given the strategic political intelligence function. I remember thinking at the time “What were we doing before? Were we just going without it?” It didn’t seem so important to find an answer to that question so I didn’t, because the Cold War had just ended and we were entering (or so I thought with the silly naivete of youth) an era of peace and cooperation.
Several years ago I came across Bendersky’s “The ‘Jewish Threat’: Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army” and learned that we DID have pre-WW2 strategic intelligence function but it was carried out by U.S. Army ‘Military Intelligence Division’. The MID was staffed with and led by patriotic career officers committed to the defense of the American people, not civilians whose employment can terminated almost by fiat (retention of security clearance is a contractual job requirement) and hence know career insecurity if they oppose policies of appointed political leadership.
The MID was dissolved one day after Pearl Harbor. Nothing moves quickly in Washington DC. Plans for the abolition of the MID, a bastion of American patriots, had obviously long since been prepared and were ready for when the war inevitably started. Roosevelt and his band of progressives and communists were traitors all along. It was their people who designed and implemented post-war institutional architecture, not American patriots, and they deliberately did so in ways both to serve their internationalists objectives and to proof those institutions from being reined in by any later Presidential or Congressional ‘interference’.
So option #3 is perfectly plausible. Pres. Trump and Sec. Rubio may or may not have known, but for damn sure it didn’t matter. It was going to happen whether they knew or approved or not. There is no accountability. Full collapse is the cure.
Dissolving on day one after PH is no coincidence and what some have said about leadership knowing of the PH attack sounds more likely as time goes by.
Just like 80+ years of being told Hitler committed suicide in a bunker only to find out them crazy conspiracy people were actually correct that Hitler bore children and lived in Argentina until the mid 60s
Absolutely it was NOT a coincidence!
By the 1960’s, several books by John Flynn, George Morgenstern, and Charles Beard offered proof that either Pearl Harbor was planned or that Roosevelt knew in advance what the Japanese were planning, and allowed it to happen anyway, in order to involve America in World War II.
The book, which convinced me that Roosevelt was a Communist traitor, was published around 1950 and was called Back Door to War, written by Georgetown University Professor of History Charles Tansill.
He definitely had sympathies. I read in a book on The OSS and Wild Bill Donovan. They had exposed multiple commies within Roosevelt’s WH and had them dead to rights on sending intel back to Russia. TR response? meh. We are doing the same in the kremlin. If we expel theirs they will expel ours.
I grew up hearing my grandmother telling of her neighbor’s son, who was stationed at Pearl, intercepting the Japanese messages and knowing about the raid.
In reading Wounded Tiger: The Transformational True Story of the Japanese Pilot Who Led the Pearl Harbor Attack by Martin Bennett’s biography of Matsuo Fuchida who led the Japanese raid, I learned that Japan had been planning a raid and a brief war with the US since 1937. Fuchida was part of the brass who was in the planning meetings, and he as well as the Army’s Generals were not only for the raid, they believed it would cripple the US and after a brief war of attrition, bring us to the bargaining table suing for piece. Admiral Yamamoto, US educated, and familiar with the culture and mindset of Americans warned that they be “waking a sleeping giant” and that they could not beat the US in an all-out war. He was ignored, and true to the Japanese culture accepted his roll.
Reading several books on 9/11 and having a relative who was involved in intelligence gathering, we know that the US knew of an imminent attack against the US using aircraft as a weapon. They did not know the day or the specific targets though just as the US knew Japan was going to attack, but knot when.
Missing details of those attacks does no excuse ignoring them! The Naval brass knew that Pearl was the likely target, and they did have reconnaissance flights in the area. One plane spotted the Japaneses fleet. But the daily routine on Pearl remained lax, and not on a war footing.
The FBI knew that Egyptians were taking flight training in flight schools, they knew who the individuals were. They knew an attack was planned. Just as at Pearl, they did nothing to act on the information they did have. IMO, they could have brought the Egyptians in for interrogation, analyzed their communications as they were being recorded in real time already.
Pearl Harbor as it was prior to General/President Eisenhower’s warning about the Military Industrial Complex, was not a red flag event, but it had the effect that some in power desired. A war economy with massive spending.
I believe 9/11 was a Red Flag event to usher in the Patriot Act. It is hard to imagine the government many of us have sworn to protect from foreign and domestic enemies would commit such an act on its citizens, but the informed, and logical mind can come to no other conclusion.
Thanks much, Horace – The CURE you mentioned at the end of option #3 seems the most reasonable repair.
Reinforces a lot of concerns already held. Roosevelt was no friend of capitalism or the Constitution. Too many do not know this because he got to write the history. Thanks for the insight.
Another
optionpossibility is that John Cornyn is trying to sound relevant and important as the sand runs out of his tenure of office.Earning that last check??
About to take his place on the Burisma board??
Well, that job has been vacant for about 2 years.
The DC politicians are not concerned with their piddly paychecks.
They become multi-millionaires by selling their votes to lobbyists and special interest groups.
Zelensky ‘pleads with US Senate for help on battlefield’ after Trump calls to replace Ukrainian leader
Time to take the little gobsh!te out
https://www.dailymail.com/news/us-politics/article-16222115/Zelensky-pleads-US-Senate-Trump.html
Before choosing any option, the validity of the underlying premise must be examined:
”RECENT REPORTS ON STARSHIELD SATELLITE COMMUNICATION DISRUPTION”: whose, source, evidence, true or false or just rumors
If this premise can be verified, then the entire statement is based on quicksand – IF Rs retain the House.
If Ds win the House, option options 1, 2 or 3 can/will be used for impeachment #3.
Cornyn is just the messenger.
I’m probably making this too simple.
OTOH, Occam’s Razor.
Cornyn, Tillis, and Shaheen are all national disgraces.
Don’t let the door hit you in the @ss, you disgusting anti-American turncoats. Party is of little consequence when the individual is a deep state operative (which very many of them are).
Good riddance to all three of these repulsive dunces.
Isn’t it interesting that the three of them are not running again? So you can be cavalier with the perception that you are ‘in the know’ and throw a bomb on your way out the door.
Why not name the others six who signed the letter? Because they know it stirs up the water and these people might, just might, not want their names exposed.
Will their security clearance be yanked? Seems that would be the thing to do.
Cornyn is anti-MAGA, anti-Trump, part of the Bush globalist cabal. His comment is the kind of passive-aggressive disruption such people prefer. What he knows is irrelevant. What he says defines the man, RINO.
RINO POS
He also suggests US personnel are on the ground. How many? And in what capacity?
Wouldn’t Elon be able to determine if his Starshield system is being used? Who would have set it up for Zelensky?
As Elon stated, StarSheild is controlled by US Military, not SpaceX.
They are and I read that American soldiers(s) were unalived in Ukraine via a Russian bombing run. Zelensky always lies claiming Russians attacked a residential building. When you look closer – this building was the HQ of mercenaries.
Which NATO partners or 5 Eyes allies can access Starshield for Ukraine? Some of them are hell bent to escalate the war, so I wouldn’t put it past them.
Let’s not forget Peter Thiel’s ‘Palantir” – they are providing
Zelensky with satellite intelligence.
sounds like the controlled oppo still being briefed by Vindman.
Option one, hes a deep state rino moron.
In Rubio’s Uzbekistan press conference posted here, note that Rubio claims Ukraine has access to Starshield, but for use within Ukraine. That differs From statements made by others in the administration, and is contrary to the official position. I have no expectation that Cornyn would say something truthful that would help the administration, but this casts a different light on his comment. He would certainly find a way to hurt the administration.
I thought he said Starlink, not Starshield.
Rubio did not say that. Read again.
My opinion is that Coryn is a Deep State RINO eat up with TDS who will say anything, true or not, just as long as it hurts Trump, the MAGA movement, or Trump’s supporters. Kinda like Thune and the rest of elite scum in Congress.
There should be serious consequences for senators that are butt-hurt for losing their reelection and want to take it out on the current administration and damage the country and our foreign policy on their way out the door. Cornyn, Tillis, and Cassidy are three RINOs that have been long overdue for removal. All senatorial benefits, courtesies, privileges, etc., should be immediately revoked for starters. Any further interference will result in judicial punishment and possible confinement. That would be my idea of a possible solution to these childish temper tantrums that do nothing but hurt the country.
100%
Option 1. Never forget how dumb and lazy these Congress critters are.
There surely are some dumb ones and some lazy ones on both sides of the aisle.
That said, IMO, most of those who stay around for any length of time are shrewd, self-serving operators.
They want power and money
or
Money and power.
They have both to some extent or the other.
Once witness how Senators and Congressmen/women (and their key staff) operate, you will lose any respect you might have for most of them, IMO.
Yep, many of them do good things. Many do bad things. Sometimes they do both things at the same time.
But at the end of the day, it’s all about them.
Yes, there are exceptions, but IMO there aren’t many.
Option #4 – Cornyn is a lying POS and trying to give impeachment fodder to Democrats in the hope that they win the midterms.
In less than 90 days John Cornyn is out of office. May the Senate take an early holiday recess and only convene once the lame ducks are gone.
Cornyn isn’t worth a cup of my warm spit.
Well, we already know #3 is true. Rogue subversive elements within the IC/ military have been executing operations without WH authorization since the 60’s. That’s what the Bay of Pigs fiasco was all about. No one has ever stopped them. But they stopped JFK in his tracks. Hmmm. Not much ever changes, does it? The good news is they have not succeeded at taking down President Trump yet. May God always protect him and his family.
Nixon too
Option 2 with knobs on.
I have stated umpteen times on here that NOONE in Ukraine has the knowledge to conduct this remote control war on behalf of NATO.
There have been NATO personnel fighting in Ukraine since day one with mercenaries from all over Europe and south America.
Even a pint pot republic like my homeland has buried more than one Irish national killed there.
So this senator is one of the many traitors.
SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah, look, on Starshield is something that the Department of War controls, and Ukraine has benefited from it. https://pubt.io/view/C4452D9CA8F0E6D6E1F80683621FD130B329D123
10/19/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/19/2026 03:29
It remains in our national interest to help Ukraine defend itself from Putin’s aggression.
No, Senator Cornyn, it is in the best interest of the USA not to be involved in war in a country some 5000 miles away where there are no treaty and legal obligations to be involved. The US has not declared a war and so should not be supplying money, weapons, intelligence and more to one of the most corrupt countries in Europe. The UK and various EU counties have very serious problems at home and poured hundreds of billions – which they can ill afford – into Ukraine while not addressing the economic mess in their governance.
The best deterrence to Russia would be strong, stable and economically sound West European countries. The worst thing is not Russia getting the upper hand and forcing Ukraine to sign a peace treaty and having to give up some of its territory. Instead it is the collapse of the EU because of problems with the economy, energy supply, flood of illegals, mismanagement and waste. Neither Democratic Socialism nor its relative Marxism has delivered a utopia in any country in the world so why would any sensible country want to bet on them?
What American personnel?
Wouldn’t Musk and his team know exactly who has access to Starshield? And if such access had previously been hacked, surely they’ve been now alerted and can rectify this. So if Ukraine actually had Starshield, then #3 would be relevant. If they never did, then #1 is relevant. Either way, Musk has insured that they don’t have it now. And Cornyn’s tweet has, once again, exposed him for who he is.
Cornhole and Tillis want to burn everything down on the way out. Disgusting people.
Beat me to it!
Sounds like cornyn just released classified info. Lock him up
These three assholes are try to burn the place down on their way out the door.
Unfortunately Shaheen will be in office for another four years. Unless, of course, she has leaked classified information illegally. Though she has the democrat shield against all prosecution, if it is too obvious the three letter douches could get rid of her.
This is, essentially, Putin’s basis for lack of trust with the Trump’s administration being able to deliver real guarantees relative to America’s position on Ukraine. Since Trump is not in control, why should Putin waste his time negotiating. Hell of a thing to have to consider: Trump is not in control.
Where do you get the idea that “Trump is not in control”? Who, pray tell, do you suppose is in control?
Oh hogwash!
Yet another arrow from the Rino interloper class to thwart Trump, MAGA and the midterms
there are NO mistakes with people in our government
they are for themselves
and against us
period
What everyone is ignoring is that John Cornyn is a RINO of the first degree. His hatred of President Trump because Trump refused to endorse him for another term in the Senate is well known and documented.. If he can help swing the Senate and the House to the Democrats, thereby destroying the rest of Trumps second term objectives seems obvious. I care less about what happened 80 years ago than what will happen on November 3rd. That could cause our second Civil War.
Option 4: Cornyn is trying to pressure Trump to grant Ukraine access to Starshield after its illegal use of Starlink was discovered.
As he explicitly named himself, Tillis and Shaheen without exposing the other 6, I feel that options 1 and 2 are off the table and that the other 6 are likely deeply loyal to Obama and Option 3, heretofore known as the NUCLEAR OPTION, is the most likely scenario. It would also appear that this post, timed for two weeks before midterm election day is specifically designed to instigate action by the Russians, not against Ukraine this time, but against the USA. The Deep State largely has access to the deepest and safest bunkers in the country and are likely making plans at this moment to get there ASAP. This crowd cares NOTHING for the American people. Heck, they’re even willing to sacrifice their beloved illegal aliens in the process. Since Jack Smith had access to all financial information on every Trump donor (not the big ones, they’re already known) but the little ones), it seems likely that they will leak the most Trump populated areas in the country sometime today or tomorrow in hopes that Putin will be sufficiently angry to hurl a couple of nukes our way thus ending the midterm crisis for the Deep State. The Deep State enabled the Democrat Socialists in order to use them to wrestle control from Trump and MAGA. Since that appears to not be working as well as planned (thanks Z-man NY for letting your control cat out of the bag), they don’t know exactly how to solve the Socialist problem any other way. Don’t get me wrong, they want the Socialist government control (and have since Bubba and Killary were in the WH) they simply don’t know how to control the Socialists!
Tillis can’t be gone soon enough but all roads in the senate lead to that snake in the grass Mark Warner. Until he is swinging in the breeze nothing gets better
Cornyn is despicable and a coward. He is another example of entitlement and a need for term limits (silly idea? Perhaps.)
Yes, I know, term limits will never happen but at age 64 I no longer trust the “voters” to do the right thing.
Cronyn was fired in the primary and now is throwing hand grenades into the room as he is walking out…just like the other handjob Thom Tillis.
I shouldn’t be surprised he’s done something like this on the way out, but yet here I am surprised anyway b/c I just can’t figure why someone would say/do something so stupid and detrimental to the country they claim to work for. At best, he’s a doddering old coot hollering at offensive clouds. At worst, he’s sowing the seeds of wrath like a spoiled, chastised child moaning to ne’er do well friends after a well-deserved punishment.
Then again, RINOs gonna RINO.
Is this the October surprise we have been waiting for?
No.
0.o
Well now, not that the Senate was going to get much accomplished in the 22 days left on the 2026 calendar when they finally return on November 9th, but now the agenda will be focused on the Ukraine war, the Iran war, and ‘affordability issues’ like high gasoline prices. Thanks Cornyn and Tillis for adding more wood on the bonfire of distractions and complications!
Cornyn and Tillis will probably even block judicial nominations on the Judiciary Committee until ‘they get answers’ as a matter of ‘muh principles’. There are 13 Judicial nominations still waiting to get voted out of committee.
With Congress being focused on all this and other nonsense I don’t see Congress getting any MAGA legislation passed or any of President Trump’s ‘America First’ executive orders codified.
And of course I don’t think there will be many, if any, of the 12 budget Bills enacted so we’ll end up with the usual CR extensions. If the Republicans hold or increase Senators in the midterm elections the Democrats(and a few Republicans) will continue to delay or block them as they require a 60 vote threshold to pass. And if the Democrats take the majority they of course will continue blocking until those D Senators take office in January.
I don’t foresee much in the way of meaningful or consequential legislation passed in the 22 scheduled days left in 2026, but we will have lots of outrage speeches, gaslighting, and insufferable kabuki theater for all!!! In other words–just a typical kick the can down the road and do nothing for the American Citizens Session for our Congress Critters!
You say that like the treasonous, lame duck, committee RINOs will still be drawing breath after the SHTF when Dems will not be allowed to cheat on the midterm election.
Another option is he knows what he is saying is BS but it was calculated just to make Trump look bad and to clamor for more US involvement in Ukraine.
Well……
Or maybe it’s option 4:
Sour grapes on the part of Cornyn because his constituents primaried him and he just wants to make trouble for the Trump administration on his way out of office.
Cornyn is such a POS. His departure can’t come soon enough.
I’ve slogged thru almost all of the comments and have yet to see the theory of not 1 thru three, but the initial slowdown (from unknown sources) is a leak trap. The “Five Why’s”. Why was the data flow slowed? Not stopped? Not intermittent? Cornpone, and his staff…let’s face it, are angry children throwing a tantrum. I feel a large majority of the staff will be gone once Paxton wins. Sour grapes.
Just some food for thought.
Allegiance only to himself!
Option 4: Cornyn in collaboration with the other butt hurt Senators purposefully released this as their last stab to sabotage Trump trying to bring normalization between Russia and US.
Simple, terms of service limits are now being enforced. They were not before. I am sure it is not Musk acting alone. Have to assume that they were using the plane speed service level “unofficially” with a wink and a nod. TOS boils down to: “Starlink enforces strict ground speed limits that vary by service plan, with violations constituting a breach of the Terms of Service and potentially violating aviation or maritime regulations. For standard Roam and Priority plans, the maximum supported in-motion ground speed is capped at 100 mph (87 knots), a limit effective from March 2026 that applies to use on land or water.
Higher speeds are permitted only under specific Aviation or Priority tiers, such as General Aviation Local (up to 300 mph / 482 km/h) and General Aviation Global (up to 450 mph / 724 km/h), which require identity verification. Operating any Starlink kit above these authorized limits without the correct plan is a violation of the Terms of Service, and SpaceX has indicated it may block connections or enforce restrictions on users detected exceeding these speeds.”
sounds like he’s big mad and wants to stir up trouble for everyone…
Cornyn is a RINO traitor. NATO is the aggressor, Ukraine is the proxy and Russia is merely defending itself.
#4-Prolonging the war so he can get his snout in the trough.
John Cornyn is showing himself to be just a despicable human being as there can be. He needs to be hauled in for treason.