Moon Treaty

But when you've got a gazillion trillion dollars and you don't know what to do with it, I guess you look to the skies and think, hmm, okay, new frontiers.

Now, the 67 Space Treaty, the 79 Moon Agreement Treaty, how much clout have they got in 2026?

Well, look, I mean, the practical is it's very much your mortgage problem, and that is location and real estate matters.

And the fact of the matter is most people do uphold the treaties, but there's a few issues.

I don't remember how many there are, and whether we like the UN or not is, is not really relevant.

But there is a huge block of people that believe in benefit sharing, as outlined in the Moon Treaty or-

Yes

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France, Britain, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, Brazil, so on and so on, the major spacefaring nations of the world.

Now, the, the big question to ask is, well, why would all these major nations sign bilateral agreements with the United States, which makes the US the top dog or the hegemon when it comes to space affairs, when you had already an Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967, which was a multilateral treaty under the control of the United Nations, and then you had the Moon Treaty, uh, in the early 1970s and, and o- other multilateral treaties dealing with space? Why would you abandon the multilateral framework where all the states are equal, and it's just a matter of majority vote, to something where you have one country, the United States, in control of every- Why is that? Well, I think that it's because of Green Mountain.

The major nations that have signed the Artemis Accord, and we're talking about, you know, the big nations, France, Germany, Brazil, uh, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and so forth.

They signed because they want to have their international pilots, military pilots, trained on using these hybrid spacecraft that have been built with the assistance of Nordic extraterrestrials.

We- Having- this over who, who owns the Moon with a different treaty.

Uh, the Moon Agreement of 1979 declared lunar resources the common heritage of mankind, and, and imagined an international regime to manage them.

Uh, only 17 countries are parties, and no major space power is among them.

The United States never signed that treaty, so this is kind of like the diplomatic equivalent of a gym membership for people who never go to the gym, right? Common heritage sounds good until you ask who runs the shared account.