The rules-based order has allowed the U.S. to get away with everything the rules supposedly do not permit. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:
If this is what the “rules-based international order” looks like, would we not, perhaps, be better off without it?
The “rules-based international order” has allowed the incineration of Gaza, and the bombing of Yemeni forces who are trying to stop it.
The “rules-based international order” allowed hundreds of thousands of people to be killed by western-backed Saudi atrocities in Yemen.
The “rules-based international order” allowed NATO powers to knowingly provoke a world-threatening proxy war in Ukraine.
The “rules-based international order” allowed western powers and their regional partners to plunge Syria into a horrific civil war by flooding the nation with heavily armed fascistic extremist factions.
The “rules-based international order” has allowed the US to invade and occupy a vast stretch of Syrian territory in order to control the nation’s natural resources and prevent reconstruction.
I love it when Vlad the Putinator mocks the rules based order of the Potemkin GAE FUSA.
A smoke and mirrors fraud just like everything else.
Ol’ Joey Goebbels had a great quote about the lies one day collapsing under their own weight.
Take what you can use and discard the rest.
Time for a false flag kabuki or some resource rich third worlders to kick around.
Yemen doesn’t have anything to steal says sad trombone.