The Man Warning The West: I’m Leaving the UK in 2 Years, If This Happens!

The "rules-based international order" that politicians frequently reference was always more myth than reality. As Yuval Noah Harari explains in his book Sapiens, much of what we consider real in human society - money, laws, institutions - are actually shared fictions that work only as long as people believe in them and powerful actors enforce them.International law was perhaps the weakest of these shared fictions. Unlike domestic law, which is backed by police and military force, international law had no enforcement mechanism beyond the willingness of the world's most powerful country to act. When that country - the United States - became reluctant to play global policeman, and when other major powers like Russia and China decided to ignore these "rules," the entire system began to crumble.Trump's approach represents a recognition of this new reality. Rather than pretending that international law still matters when no one else follows it, he's saying America will do what's in its national interest. This explains his actions in Venezuela - removing a hostile leader who has destabilized an entire region and allowed foreign adversaries to establish a foothold in America's backyard.