@xanlopez.xyz I don't believe it's a binary thing, whether it exists or not, rather there are forces that seek to weaken it and forces that seek to strengthen it.
#RulesBasedOrder
#rulesbasedworldorder
#RulesBasedInternationalOrder

#Trump's first 100 days: The ’America First’ president is overturning the world order

In the chaotic first 100 days since Trump returned to office, he has waged an often unpredictable campaign that has upended parts of the #RulesBasedWorldOrder that Washington helped build from the ashes of WWII.

#AmericanAutocracy #NewWorldOrder #Chaos #Uncertainty #economy #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Government #democracy #Constitution #Law #power
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-first-100-days-america-first-president-is-overturning-world-order-2025-04-27/

#Hamas envisioned deeper attacks, aiming to provoke a #war w/ #Israel

Evidence gleaned since #Oct7 shows Hamas #terrorists prepared for a ‘second wave’ of assaults amid hopes of inspiring #violence in the #WestBank & beyond

The first clues came from the bodies of slain terrorists: maps, drawings, notes & the weapons & gear they carried.

#WarCrimes #LawsOfWar #RulesBasedWorldOrder #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #Terrorism #MiddleEast #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/11/12/hamas-planning-terror-gaza-israel/

#TrumpTrial in #Colorado began today

In Sept, 6 Colorado voters filed the suit argueing that Trump is ineligible to hold office again under the #14thAmendment’s §3. That section disqualifies anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the #Constitution after having taken an #oath to support it.

#democracy #RulesBasedWorldOrder #NationalSecurity #PoliticalViolence #MAGA #DomesticTerror
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/us/politics/trump-colorado-trial-14th-amendment-jan-6.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Israeli attacks have killed ≥7,703 people in #Gaza & wounded >18,900, the Gaza Health Ministry said. Almost 3,200 children have been killed in Gaza, ofcls said. Israeli authorities said >1,400 people were killed in #Israel & >5,400 injured since #Hamas’s attack #Oct7. ≥32 #UnitedStates nationals are among those killed.

#war #LawsOfWar #terrorism #HumanitarianCrisis #CrimesAgainstHumanity #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #NonCombatants #RulesBasedWorldOrder #MiddleEast #GlobalSecurity #geopolitics

A #Hamas field manual …& other docs found…(after) the group’s brutal attack on #Israel 2 wks ago illustrate some of its #MilitaryCapabilities & preparations for close-in, bloody killing.

It… lists instructions on operating weapons, identifies vulnerabilities in Israeli military equipment & offers tips on killing w/a knife.

#war #LawsOfWar #WarCrimes #RulesBasedWorldOrder #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #Terrorism #MiddleEast #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/21/hamas-documents-plans-israel-attack/

Americans who mistreated Iraqi #POWs were #CourtMartialed, #convicted, & #sentenced to time in military #prisons. The British still agonize over the past behavior of their soldiers in Northern Ireland, & the French over theirs in Algeria.

#Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine & #Hamas’s surprise attack on the #civilians of #Israel are both blatant rejections of that #RulesBasedWorldOrder, & they herald something new.

#war #LawsOfWar #WarCrimes #PoliticalViolence #HumanRights #geopolitics

There Are No Rules

#States & #QuasiStates are using #extreme, uninhibited #violence against #civilian populations.

by @anneapplebaum
@TheAtlantic

The “#RulesBasedWorldOrder” is a system of norms & #values that describe how the world ought to work, not how it actually works.

#Israel #Hamas #war #WarCrimes #Terrorism #PoliticalViolence #HumanRights #geopolitics
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-war-hamas-terrorism-ukraine-russia/675590/

President of #Israel Isaac #Herzog said he met Tues w/the families of people abducted by #Hamas.

“I met those who do not know the fate of their loved ones & those who know that they are in the hands of a cruel & brutal enemy,” Herzog said in a video posted on social media.

#war #Gaza #geopolitics #RulesBasedWorldOrder #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #IHL #NonCombatants #LawsOfWar #JusInBello