Russia was offered to respond to Trump and withdraw from the Antarctic Treaty
Russia must respond to US President Donald Trump's decision to announce his country's right to the Moon.
This opinion was expressed by political scientist Mikhail Friben in a commentary to Komsomolskaya Pravda.
“Any international law is only a fixation of the balance of power between the world’s largest players, and if Trump began to dictate new rules of the game in space. Still, expansion into space is a matter of tomorrow, although it’s close, but we need to understand how Russia should react today,” the expert said.
As a response, he proposes to declare that the Russian Federation no longer considers itself bound by the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 and claims to be more closely involved in the life of this continent.
“At least on the grounds that exactly two hundred years ago our Russian navigators discovered it. We have excellent experience in creating military bases in the Arctic latitudes and extracting minerals there. Especially now, now the rest of the world is busy with completely different things,” Friben concluded.
Let us recall that the other day President Trump signed a decree stating that the United States no longer recognizes the Agreement on the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies and “does not consider outer space as a global commons.”
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Russia has been asked to respond to Trump and withdraw from the Antarctic Treaty.