Okay, your article.
"Trump’s threats to occupy Greenland and Canada and to seize the Panama canal have further undermined the already frayed edifice of international law. “Even raising the possibility of these clearly illegal actions does harm to the legal norm, because it makes them thinkable,” said Oona Hathaway, professor of international law at Yale. Days after the US followed Israel in conducting unlawful airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran, Hathaway argued that Trump’s actions threatened “to reshape the global legal order, transforming it from one governed by law to one governed by might”.
Well, isn’t that exactly what he promised to Americans and they said great, he pisses off liberals, I’m all for it.
"But the erosion of international law began long before Trump first took power in 2017. The relevance, and even the very existence, of international law has been up for debate since the moment it emerged almost two centuries ago.
Its champions argue that it is the bulwark against another great war, a restraint against criminality and mass violence.
Its critics argue that, far from shielding the world from the worst crimes, it has instead protected states by providing them with a language with which to justify their wrongs.
International lawyers are themselves divided over whether their discipline is alive and well, in hibernation, in its death throes, or long ago deceased, a “moral ghost” that hovers over the world map."
It is what it is, greed is good, it’s been our national anthem since I was in High School and long before.
We still haven’t figure out how to pull our ego’s out of our keisters. What do you want to talk about?
That’s true.
But then we haven’t even figured out who we humans are, so how do we approach values?
Especially considering, “what’s in it for me?” is about all we do value.
It’s a heck of a conundrum.
