Personally, the financial and political empowerment of foreign tyrants and unelected, unaccountable global UN bureaucrats disturbs me more than the loss of revenue to the United States, as bad as that is.
you do realize the revised treaty, not the one this author is mistakenly referencing, provides that the USA can require all disputes involving the usa are arbitrated in the USA with non UN arbitrators.
“Personally, the financial and political empowerment of foreign tyrants and unelected, unaccountable global UN bureaucrats disturbs me more than the loss of revenue to the United States, as bad as that is.”
This is an aspect I didn’t consider but once you pointed it out I can see this is more dangerous.
There also exist the issues of deep sea mining and international fisheries. In a world bereft of bureacrats and ruled by Socraatic intellects the LOS would be just fine. As the world now is, only a fool would support its passage. John McCain has found as the world now exists, the Chinese won’t play ball. If the US has a seat at the table, nothing will change, it will still be just another inept UN bureaucracy who have little control over events.