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Previous administrations allowed themselves to be constrained by the rules they made up, but the current admin doesn't care about the rules because they're woke. I do think that has an influence on their decisions on Venezuela and Iran, because without the rules they can just kidnap and kill their leaders instead of relying on sanctions and the """rules based international order"""
Then again, they basically torched the rules already in Gaza, so maybe they'd have been less reluctant to break more rules.
They haven't followed their own laws since ww2. usa hasn't been at "war" since ww2. They are all "armed conflicts" or "police actions."
Yeah, but the rules and the laws are different, that's why they call it the “”“rules based international order”“” instead of international law. The rules are just something they made up, but they allowed themselves to be constrained by them. They could have removed Maduro or started war with Iran whenever they wanted, but that would go against the rules. That's why they tried everything else under the Sun to destroy them without actually landing troops or dropping bombs. They didn't want to do this without ideological rules-based justification before.