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Originally Posted by bojan
The moment they figure out the treaty is in the way of their business, "they" will pronounce it invalid. Or "they" will will find the ways how to circumvent it ("scientific mining"? why not?)
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Precisely....the fact that they signed the 1967 Treaty on Outer Space will be neither here nor there. They'll ignore it just like they ignore most of the others when it suits them. In any case, they'll just say that it's the big multinational companies that are exploiting Mars resources, not national entities. I can see the likes of the US, China and maybe Russia doing precisely that. Using the multinationals as a front to foster territorial ambitions, but only in a proxy sort of sense. "Clayton's" territorial claims.
What makes things worse is that most of the nations will just get left behind because it'll only be those nations tied into the various space programs which will benefit. The others will just have to wait for the trickle down effect to occur...if it ever does.