How can any Senator vote for LOST and think the ChiComs will abide by it? Look what those bass-turds are trying to do in the South China sea.
China will not abide by LOST because they aren’t already. They are currently conducting an intimidation campaign against Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, and Indonesia on territorial rights of the South China Sea. All countries involved are signatures of LOST.
A PIECE OF PAPER WILL NOT HALT CHINESE AGGRESSION!!!
Secondly, in North America, Canada and Russia are in a tit-for-tat conflict over oil territories in the Arctic zone. Russia has used a mini sub to plant a Russian flag on the North Pole sea bed to claim the area for gas/oil extraction.
In LOST, we will relinquish resource rights (oil/gas/fish/minerals) in OUR territorial waters and will have to apply for a permit from the UN. If granted, there will be royalties that will have to be paid to the UN which will be redistributed third party countries.....say, N.Korea, Iran, Venezuelia, China and so forth (even to land-lock countries!).
It’s basically a global engery tax and wealth redistribution.
Also, all oil/gas tech must be shared with other signature countries.
LOST is also a treasure trove of “environmental Trojan Horses” ready to be sprung on the US.
We already have treaties with our neighbors over off-shore drilling rights (Russia, Canada, Mexico and Cuba). There is no need for LOST. If need be, we can negotiate with LOST countries for future territory boundaries.