#US #Hypocrisy on #Foreign #Policy Undermines the ‘Rules-Based’ Order it Claims to Defend - #Branko #Marcetic

"When #wars of #aggression and other crimes against #international #law are perpetrated, unanimous #global opposition would go a long way toward stopping and #deterring them. But if we in the #West refuse to scrutinize our own conduct or hold ourselves to the principles we espouse, and instead insist on engaging in the behavior we condemn in others, we run the risk of encouraging other powerful states to do the same, and of the tenuous system of international law reverting back to the law of the jungle"

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/01/us-hypocrisy-on-foreign-policy-undermines-the-rules-based-order-it-claims-to-defend