Why space?

To escape tyranny.

Why do people accept tyranny in the first place? Perhaps because they are taught not to see it for what it is?

it is clear that the rebels will succeed in violating the treaty’s prohibition against claiming sovereign territory in outer space

Are they or are they just claiming the territory for themselves making themselves a new sovereign?

SpaceX has no intention of settling for just being able to send cargo to the International Space Station

Amen to that.