Comment by JumpCrisscross

> it wouldn't matter as resource exhaustion is faster than it was previously and we will run out of resources, money or not

Oh. Sure. Fair. But not relevant in our lifetimes, at least not from the position of the United States. If push came to shove, we'd take those last bits of sand. That's one of the problems with might makes right: it lets those in power put off hard choices.