I don't know if he's saying it's a good thing, but he's completely correct.
Clearly, international laws are make believe, if they can't actually hold the US, or Russia, or Israel, or any of the other big boys to account.
If countries can violate "international law" with impunity then, yeah, it's fake.
And, it was always a tool for the strong/winners to oppress the weak/losers, and push their interests. The very idea of "international law" is massively utopian. It requires the idea that a bunch of groups with different interests come together to hold themselves and others to account, without abuse power or pushing their own interests, or falling under the sway of any outside powers.
That's just reality. You can be a massive anti-interventionist, and still realize international law is fake and gay. It's not a big reach.
It also assumes that those disparate groups will send men and material to be under the command of some other force that will then dictate where they go to enforce the rules. That would mean we are intervening everywhere at the behest of foreign powers.
I don't know if he's saying it's a good thing, but he's completely correct.
Clearly, international laws are make believe, if they can't actually hold the US, or Russia, or Israel, or any of the other big boys to account.
If countries can violate "international law" with impunity then, yeah, it's fake.
And, it was always a tool for the strong/winners to oppress the weak/losers, and push their interests. The very idea of "international law" is massively utopian. It requires the idea that a bunch of groups with different interests come together to hold themselves and others to account, without abuse power or pushing their own interests, or falling under the sway of any outside powers.
That's just reality. You can be a massive anti-interventionist, and still realize international law is fake and gay. It's not a big reach.
It also assumes that those disparate groups will send men and material to be under the command of some other force that will then dictate where they go to enforce the rules. That would mean we are intervening everywhere at the behest of foreign powers.
How is that anti-intervention?