#rules-based international order

[minnesotafollower]

How Trump Sees the World     

“It’s clear that the concept of a ‘rules-based international order’ is anathema to Mr. Trump. After all, following rules may force you to do something you don’t want to and may impose short-term costs on your country. Mr. Trump seems to think the current rules don’t promote America’s long-term interests.” “His aim, it seems, is to maximize his freedom of action at all times. This explains why he…

[probablyasocialecologist]

[agentfascinateur]

Go Slovenia! ✊🏼 Recognize Palestine! 💜

Make things right 👍🏼

[k-wame]

when liberalism has lied to you

[irhabiya]

obnoxious as fuck fandom moron about to regurgitate some deeply idiotic garbage: OOKAYY since i completely forgot we all don't know about international law🤓☝����

[emptyanddark]

To be clear, many in and out of the US government often treat the term “rules-based international order” as a synonym for international law. And proponents of the rules-based international order are happy to use or hail international law when it serves the United States, like when the International Criminal Court seeks to arrest Vladimir Putin for his war crimes in Ukraine. Yet the United States will never submit itself to the ICC. Under President George W. Bush, the US revoked its (unratified) signature to the treaty establishing the court. Under President Donald Trump, it sanctioned the families of ICC prosecutors who opened a war-crimes investigation into the US war in Afghanistan. That is how the rules-based international order operates. It doesn’t replace the mechanisms of international law; it places asterisks beside them. The rules may bind US adversaries, but the US and its clients can opt out. A brief history of how the US spent its post–Cold War moment of supreme global power shows the rise of what we now call the RBIO at the expense of international law. When the United Nations wouldn’t authorize war on Serbia to save Kosovo, the United States acted as if NATO wielded the same imprimatur, and no nation was strong enough to challenge its assertion. That impulse was supercharged by 9/11. The 2003 US invasion of Iraq made a mockery of international law while claiming cynically to uphold it.

What began as a response to an emergency in the Balkans is now routine. President Barack Obama turned a UN humanitarian mission in Libya into supporting the overthrow of Moammar El-Gadhafi. After the wreckage of Iraq became the horror of ISIS, the US stationed troops in eastern Syria with neither UN mandate nor invitation from the unfortunately enduring Bashar Assad. Trump ordered the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, one of the most important figures in the Iranian government.

“The RBIO cannot replace international law—international law is inherent in the very concept of a state, of an international boundary, of treaties, of human rights,” Mary Ellen O’Connell, an international-law expert and professor at the University of Notre Dame, said via e-mail. “But the RBIO is undermining knowledge and respect for the system of international law. The law’s capacity to support solutions to global challenges from war and peace to climate change and poverty is being severely degraded by this competing, deeply flawed concept.” Now consider what Israel is doing in Gaza. By early November, it was killing an estimated 180 children a day. The IDF demanded that Palestinians abandon their homes in northern Gaza and then, when hundreds of thousands complied, attacked the destinations in southern Gaza it herded them toward. After starving Gaza, denying it medicine, shutting off its communications, killing its journalists, besieging and even raiding its hospitals, and asserting that places of mass refuge are Hamas positions, Israel claimed to have killed “dozens” of Hamas commanders, out of a total death toll at the time of 10,500 Palestinians. There is no way to square those figures with international law’s demands for distinction and proportionality. Israel, however, knows it has something stronger than international law: the protection of the rules-based international order.

[uboat53]

Israel's president is now saying that Iran's attack is a declaration of war, ignoring that Israel has already done so.

I realize that, in the last few decades, we've moved away from declaring war in response to single attacks and actions, but attacking the embassy of another country is an act of war.

If Israel and Iran are at war, Israel is the one that started it. They didn't have to start this, but we should not pretend that they didn't. If we're still living in a world of rules, then we have to at least acknowledge what those rules say, no matter which side you may personally sympathize with.

And if we don't live in a world of rules anymore, then I pity the people of that world, for it is about to get a lot more violent than almost anyone in living memory has ever seen.

[minnesotafollower]

Wall Street Journal’s Criticism of Trump’s Tariff Decisions and Analysis of His Values 

Wall Street Journal’s two recent editorials have criticized President Trump’s tariff decisions and the Journal has offered commentary on Trump’s State of the Union address to the Congress and the opinion of a Journal columnist (William Galston) on how Trump sees the world. Editorial: “Trump Takes the Dumbest Tariff Plunge”[1]  “President Trump likes to cite the stock market when it’s rising as a…

[goopaspect]

kind of insane how weve been subjected to the idea that russia and china are uniquely aggressive imperial powers for the past however long to justify all sorts of poking and prodding at them from The WestTM

meanwhile israel literally bombs an embassy, picks fights with its neighbors constantly and has been very openly making land grabs since its inception and its crickets

[b0ringasfuck]

E chiaramente l'UN fuori dalle palle perchè l'equazione Hamas si nasconde dietro i civili (quando l'IDF li immobilizza sul cofano delle camionette eh) deve essere indisputabile... e comunque al limite si bombardano quelli dell'UN o MSF o i giornalisti...

Israel bombed a polio vaccination site.

This is unadulterated evil. Israel has no right to exist and must be abolished.

[fairuzfan]

I have no faith that such a thing as international law exists anymore and we are all completely at the whims of the United States to potentially grant us safety. There is no such thing as justice in this current world and no such thing as fairness and no such thing as equality and everything you've been taught in the US for the past 50 years about rules based order is a lie meant to lull you into complacency it's all a sham that means nothing and I look forward to the day when these imperialist empires fall.

[bkkblogs]

Norms, Power, and the Western Delusions of Benevolence

Dive into a compelling critique of Western self-perception as benevolent powers in this insightful blog post. Uncover the complexities of cultural norms, political orders, and the often overlooked role of power in shaping these norms. #Norms #Power #West

Cultural norms shape the emergence and evolution of political orders. However, these norms are not static or homogeneous, but rather dynamic and diverse, reflecting the power relations among different actors in local and global contexts. Huntington (1996) argued that the clash of civilizations, or the cultural conflict between different regions and groups, is the main source of global instability…

[progressive--american--politics]

America’s position as the sole great power within the international system has come to an end. The future of the liberal world order has become precarious.

[b0ringasfuck]

Siamo precisissimi e siamo attentissimi a evitare danni collaterali.

È stato un errore.

Tutti i palestinesi, bambini inclusi sono terroristi.

Siete antisemiti.

Manca "i veri fascisti sono gli antifascisti".

2 torti non fanno una ragione.

E pensare che i torti di Putin ci giustificano a chiudere gli occhi di fronte ai torti di Israele o dei nostri non crea di certo le condizioni per il tanto decantato rule-based order e l'esportazione di democrazia.

Ed è una cosa che già stiamo pagando a casa nostra, quando i costi di questa politica estera farabutta vengono caricati sulla gente ma vanno a profitto della sola classe dirigente, rendendoci sempre meno competitivi, ma che pagheremo ancora più cara dando il cattivo esempio a tutti i paesi emergenti con cui prima o poi dovremo fare i conti.

They can’t even bother trying to keep their stories straight anymore.

[liberty1776]

Scott Ritter: Russia H@mas inflicting a defeat of Death By A Thousand Cu...

What is the US Essential To? Ukraine is out of funding! “What is the acceptable number of dead Palestinian children? What is too many?”

[heritageposts]

Looks like Israel is using chemical weapons against UN troops now. If the so-called "rules-based" international order existed to do anything but uphold Western interests, something might've come from this.

Full statement from UNIFIL (13 Oct, 2024):