Like many liberal people in my country with Pooh-teen, no one believed it’s even possible to degrade that quickly, and many still believe it’s not really happening and can be undone in a couple of swift changes.

I think EU can take some lessons from two countries already declined in recent times.

What was the universe where distant planets were used as conc camps? Red Faction? Riddick?

IIRC that was long after that. The initial shutoff of Starlink happened around the explosions targeting the Crimean bridge and them introducing their naval drones.