The post-second world war taboo on acquiring territory through force or by the threat of force is being unravelled by a generation of political leaders, led by expansionist threats from Donald Trump that are unprecedented for a US president.
Experts are warning that a combination of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and Trump’s comments explicitly pushing for the US to acquire Greenland, Canada, the Panama canal and Gaza is fuelling a permissive environment that threatens long-recognised borders and the international rules-based order that has existed since the end of the war.
The norm, enshrined in article 2 of the UN charter of 1945, states that “all members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state”.
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The headline of an essay in the current issue of Foreign Affairs puts it bluntly: “Conquest is back.”
The headline only makes sense, if the time between 1945 and 2025 is comoletely ignored.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations
And those are only the US, excluding France, UK, Sowjet Union and many others…
The US has always been violating the sovereignity of countries it saw fit to do so, and most of its allies supported them, while talking hollowly of a rules based order. It is just that the hypocricsy now became so brazen, that it cannot be ignored anymore. This is not Trumps doing though. This happen well before Trump already and at the latest with the support of Israels crimes by the likes of Germany, UK, France and many more.