"White man break treaty, again?"
The downfall of America was finalized the day we abandoned the Moon.
Have the treaties illegalizing the exploitation of the Moon ever been repudiated?
We've had a lot of dark turning points, but I agree, that was one of the biggies.
Who would have ever thought Americans would have to hitch a ride to space with the Russians??
"White man break treaty, again?"
No, the Space Treaty is still in force for the signatories. Further - and why this will never be done by private enterprise located in one of those countries - is that any tech, and finding, and anything at all used in such a venture must be turned in its entirety over to the UN’s governing Space body.
In other words no one, no company can make a profit or use proprietary tech.
The exception is, of course, to have a company headquartered in a non-signatory country, or be a non-signatory country like China ...