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Originally Posted by Alonsua
The corporation is already the de facto power in the United States, now it plans to claim Antarctica for itself.
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By that, you make sure the Chinese and the Russians will never recognize anything and will do everything they can to sabotage all of these projects. If the corporation is nothing but a front of US interests, it's bad; if it actually controls the USA, it's worse.
Note BTW that claiming
all of Antarctica guarantees the enmity of Britain, Australia, France, Argentina, Norway, New Zealand, and possibly Brazil and Chile.
Both the USA and Russia have not laid any claim to Antarctica, but they both have reserved the right to do so. The Treaty specifically allows this. If the USA, or a supposedly US corporation, lay a claim, surely Russia will claim the same spot.
Claiming a part or all of Marie Byrd Land would be acceptable, since it's unclaimed by anybody, but if the corporation deploys there anything that can be construed as a military presence, it will be in violation of the Antarctic Treaty and provide every enemy with a flawless UN-mandated intervention to forcibly remove it. If it doesn't deploy any military presence, then the settlement will suffer from a catastrophic accident quite soon.