Space Force?

    Our country is in the grip of a horrible and urgent humanitarian crisis, as terrified  young children are being taken from their parents at our southern borders and put into detention centers with appalling conditions,

​...as terrified  young children are being taken from their parents at our southern borders and put into detention centers with appalling conditions,

    With the entire country on fire fueled by outrage and protest and demanding that our leaders do something immediately to end this barbaric cruelty,

​...this afternoon President Donald Trump stood before the people of the United States and called for the immediate...

...creation of a Space Force.

   That's right, a Space Force. You know, like the Air Force. Only in space. Because what our country needs right now, immediately, is a new branch of the military. Because, "Space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea." Donald Trump actually said that today.
     He also said, "Our destiny beyond the Earth is not only a matter of national identity but a matter of national security,"  and, "When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space."
        I'm not kidding. He really said all that.   
​        Look, here he is this afternoon looking pleased as punch after after signing his Executive order for the IMMEDIATE establishment of the United States Space Force.

Since having a Space Force is the most pressing problem in our country at the moment.

   However, there's one little thorn in the rose of which neither Donald Trump nor his advisors in their wisdom seem to be aware:  Having a Space Force would be against the Outer Space Treaty.
     That's right, the Outer Space Treaty.
     The Outer Space Treaty was ratified in 1967 and has been signed by over 130 countries, including Russia, China and, of course, the United States. This treaty is the basis of international space law and basically forbids the mass weaponization of space or using celestial bodies such as the Moon or planets for any purposes other than peaceful pursuits beneficial to mankind.

      I learned about the existence of Outer Space Treaty from the Lieutenant Colonel,

...who is, of course far more intelligent, knowledgeable and sagacious than the toadying  band of ignorant, sycophantic, self-servers Donald Trump surrounds himself with and calls advisors.

    "Well, then," said I to Tom after he'd told me about the Outer Space Treaty, "that means that Donald Trump can't have his Space Force. And a neither can anyone else because it's against international space law to conduct military maneuvers in space.."
     "True," said Tom, "but just because it's against the law doesn't mean that some bad guys might not do it anyway."
       (Sigh) Yeah. I just hope we don't end up being the bad guys.

References:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/president-trump-directs-pentagon-defense-department-to-immediately-being-the-process-of-establishing-space-force-as-sixth-military-branch.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44527672

https://www.state.gov/t/isn/5181.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy