I'm John Baster with George Friedman, the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures,

writing his column recently on the moon.

Not in the past, not romantically, but for the future. column recently there have been several landings, some successful, some mostly successful

around the South Pole of the Moon. There is organizing going

on in the United States called the Artemis Accords. I have some three dozen countries have

signed on. I lose count. China on the other hand is something that doesn't name the

International Research Station, Lunar Research Station. It's signing up

also allies. They tend to be allies of the Chinese Communist Party at the same time.

So there is something of a moon race. It's corporate. It's slow-footed except for the musk part.

However, what's it for? George, you measure the moon is important for the 21st century.

How so?

The moon is strategic.

As we saw recently, it covers the entire globe.

From the moon you can strike anywhere on the earth and you can protect

various missiles by burying them deep into it, into Luna. So when you take a look at the map, here is a place that is hard to hit, easy to defend,

and can strike the Earth with various weapons. So this place has been unattainable. Now is with the

Artemis projects clearly going to be having humans on it and clearly thinking about how to use those humans to age

war.

There are treaties.

Are we going to dismiss those treaties the way say the 19th century

dismissed treaties? No we'll do it much more subtly but we the treaties were

signed on the use of space when the use of space was inconceivable.

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