If the "you" here is not the all powerful US, it's a certainty that there will be a war over the project.
If it's the US, it will "just" lose a lot of soft-power.
If it's the US, it will "just" lose a lot of soft-power.
So why stop there? And as always, the Simpsons have predicted it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LbxDZRgA4
It's important to control the space junk problem, of course. But not at the cost of not using the space.
[1] https://www.universetoday.com/103650/space-debris-a-tale-of-...