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.”
Israels power is 99% US power. If US loses power Israel will as well.
The entire concept of a “rules based order” ever existing is also complete bullshit; just exceptionalism propaganda. The US has overthrown like a dozen democratically elected governments since WW2, and replaced them with puppet dictatorships. They didn’t carpet bomb south east Asia for a decade, and slaughter a million people, in defence of “democracy”. It was 100% self serving, and denied those people their basic human rights, including democracy.
The US is an imperialist nation, and always has been.
But now it’s happening to them, Russia has managed to overthrow the American government and placed their puppet in power. America is getting a very literal taste of their own medicine.
I fully agree