How the war broke out with the Martians :
Executive Order on Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources Infrastructure & Technology Issued on: April 6, 2020
“Americans should have the right to engage in commercial exploration, recovery, and use of resources in outer space,” the order states, noting that the US had never signed a 1979 agreement known as the moon treaty *. This agreement stipulates that any activities in space should conform to international law. In 2015, the US Congress passed a law explicitly allowing American companies to use resources from the moon and asteroids.
According to Trump’s executive order, the US will object to any attempt to use international law to hinder its efforts to remove chunks of the moon or, should the opportunity arise, additional mining of Mars and “other celestial bodies”.[read more]
(*) The Moon Treaty (1979) provided for the demilitarization of the Moon and other celestial bodies and declared the Moon and its resources to be a "common heritage of mankind."
10 great space travel (terrestrial) movies the Martians should have watched before the invasion
