#international-order

#international-order

Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.

No. It's insanity. And the fact is that they are good NATO partners of ours, so you can't even claim that it's damaging to America's national security interests because, well, they're our NATO ally. And the White House yesterday saying that invading Greenland has always been an option. No, it's not an option unless you are absolutely insane. He continued, warning the move would upend an order that delivered a century of U.S. dominance and slamming idiots who would say otherwise:

There are people who argue that Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine is not motivated by fears or imperial ambitions, but by other countries' disrespect. Russia once commanded authority as one of the world's two superpowers, but it has since forfeited that status. It knows it has lost the respect of other countries (Barack Obama famously dismissed Russia as just a regional power), and the Ukraine war is its way of winning it back.

The year 2025 should be a time of celebration, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the United Nations. But it risks going down in history as the year in which the international order built since 1945 collapsed.