>>12987192For the moon to be of strategic interest, there has to be another entity interested in fucking going there and setting up permanent bases
All military assets of every nation are still earth bound, thus satellite assets do not have to be placed any farther than GEO to have full coverage over all possible rivals
You're using a child's grasp of military strategy to justify your retardation
and as a bonus, the private sector DID step in, you fantastically retarded gorilla nigger, we have a fucking dozen private rocket companies all independently working on getting shit into space on the cheap, with SpaceX being the most successful among them
