Ins Leere: Wie Trump das Völkerrecht tötete | Die auf Regeln basierende Weltordnung, ihre Institutionen und ihr Wertesystem stehen vor einer Legitimitäts- und Glaubwürdigkeitskrise, da sich die USA abwenden
https://www.theguardian.com/law/ng-interactive/2025/dec/25/how-donald-trump-killed-international-law
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Should probably try “international law” that is agreed upon instead of “rules based order” domination schemes. Those are two different things
The “rules based order” is how the administration can blow up Venezuelan boats with minimal back-talk. “International law” reads differently on the tin
The withdrawal of the United States, one of the key creators and supporters of our contemporary system of agreements and regulations, from these international agreements and systems is a challenge for all the other nations that are still relying on these systems. Whether the withdrawal of a world power and major backer and beneficiary from this system will enough to meaningfully destabilize the system or not remains to be seen, but in the meanwhile, other powers are also maneuvering in this new uncertain environment.
Some key points highlighted by the article:
>There is no linear Trump foreign policy, just a catherine wheel of disconnected explosions thrown out across the night sky. As Donald Trump Jr asserts, as if it were a virtue, his father is the most unpredictable man in politics. The hugely personal nature of US foreign policy gives Washington’s erstwhile allies just enough false hope that the break with America is not real.
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>Amid this chaos there has been one consistent target for Trump’s contempt: the constraints imposed by international law, and its value system built around national sovereignty, including the prohibition of the use of force to change external borders. In its place Trump pursues “sheer coercive power” – or what has been described as mobster diplomacy, in which shakedowns, blackmail and deal-making are the agents of change.
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>Faced with the choice, for example, between expelling Russia from Ukraine – something the US undoubtedly has the military means to do by arming Kyiv sufficiently – or forging a profitable relationship with Vladimir Putin in which both sides plunder Ukraine’s considerable material resources, Trump unmistakably wants to choose the latter. Ukraine, it emerges, shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, in order to assure the survival and the success of the Trumpian economy. For the EU and Nato this is indeed the moment when every act has the potential to be decisive for the future sovereignty of Europe and the UN charter.
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>Meanwhile, the rules of free trade are shredded as Trump deploys the sheer size of the US market to extort not just money from allies, but changes in their domestic policy. A country’s standing in the White House is not judged by any rational criteria, let alone its democratic status, but on a leader’s personal relationship to Trump and his ruling clique – a blatantly monarchical order.
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>“When the United States walks away, old excuses find new life. China not only enjoys newfound freedom from scrutiny,” Kerry said: it slowly fills the gap left by the US departure.
It looks like these efforts to return to a more fragmented world order dominated by major powers and their spheres of influence are continuing apace. Thrown into this mix of various nations and their machinations are the more recent private groups and individuals of excessive private wealth and the influence that they wield. Having tested these types of influences out locally they are likely going to weight the scales in their favour with any of these new international systems as well.