Starlink’s dominant revenue stream is the US military. It’s seen as a moderately strategic program by the US as they attempt to saturate specific orbits of strategic value with US assets to prevent China from using those orbits.

If Musk actually did this, then he did it with the knowledge and likely the direction of the US military. The alternative is that he didn’t do this but the story is being planted as part of a propaganda campaign in which Musk is playing the role of right-wing mobilizer.