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Our State Department is dumb but not that dumb. We didn't even try to annex Grenada; we ain't fool enough to try to take India. And America, despite the common claims, has never really been much of an imperial power in the traditional sense of sending governors to run vassal states, so you can't even get that much. (You'll note we effectively did the empire thing in Afghanistan, but it wasn't even what we were trying to do and we did a bad job of it.)
Spoilsport!
I don't think the US has expanded its borders for almost a century at this point, I'm struggling to think of anything but some remote pacific islands with 3 coconut trees where that might not be the case. I'll have to Google that.
We should at least have called dibs on Luna. Outer Space Treaty my ass.
Hey, depending on how fast SpaceX advances, it might be a reality. What are the Chinese going to do, throw rocks at you?
They should at least try and claim a large chunk of it, because the OST is more an artifact of nobody really having the ability to monopolize most astral objects than something with staying power. If you can't get there in numbers and with the ability to stay, it's all moot.
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