‘Rules-Based Order’ Fails in Its Mission – Helping West Do Anything – RT World News

When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived to address EU ambassadors, she attempted a punk rock routine that drew former central banker and current Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to a standing ovation in Davos. But one major difference made it a tone-deaf flop: She forgot to bring her mirror.

Carney’s crucial point was a confession – that it is the people who run Western democracies that have a problem. The US has been successfully cuckolding for years through their own complicity with the same words. “We have participated in rituals and we have largely avoided the gap between rhetoric and reality.” Carney said.

Queen Ursula instead tried to blame it entirely on the system “The rules-based system we helped build with our allies” EU interests are no longer considered to be protected. And they all need to be considered “Our ideology, our institutions and our decision-making – all designed in a post-war world of stability and multilateralism – have kept pace with the pace of change around us.” Or if it is “Our credibility as a geopolitical actor has been hampered.”

Suddenly, the old rules are no longer good because they can no longer protect the interests of this establishment in the midst of this new war in the Middle East – but it’s because the rules don’t keep up with the level of institutionalized corruption these people are practicing.

Within hours, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the problem was disorder, not rules, which the EU had refused to pick up again amid recent Israeli-American bombing of the Middle East.

Ursula responded to the backlash by paying him lip service “An unwavering commitment to the pursuit of peace and international law.” Great, so when can we expect a package of sanctions against Israel and the US?

And what are these new rules in her mind? Maybe write them down so others can see them? But they’re not going to do that – because one of two things will happen. Either the rules they write for themselves are too divorced from the expectations and reality of their own citizens and sound like the rest of what comes out of their mouths, or else they produce a stirring document full of high moral language that they violate immediately before the ink is dry.

So for now, it looks like they are going to continue using this failure “Rule Based Order” As a talking point that does all the heavy lifting in explaining their own incompetence and inaction amid the current global chaos.

How they got to this point is a big mystery. Gas prices go up, markets go down – but blame international law that you refuse to follow or enforce in any meaningful way. Apparently the problem with the rulebook is that people don’t consider it optional reading.

The so-called rules-based order really means the international law and treaties created after World War II that prevent another global conflict from happening. And Western leaders have been talking about how the system suddenly isn’t that good in the last few months. This raises the obvious question: Why did it work for decades but now it does? “broken”? Here’s a thought – maybe the people running the system these days are just doing what they want and not actually following the rules. It feels less like a design flaw here and more like a compliance issue.

These people write international law in black and white, and instead of applying it directly to the unprovoked US-Israeli bombing of Iran, the response is: “Hmm, how do I absorb the invaders and avoid condemning them, since we need their cooperation on something else?” or: “How can I somehow make this situation in Iran about me and get something out of it for my shadow interests?” Or better yet: “Is there a way to capitalize on this tragedy to get people to empty their wallets so I can spend my way looking totally incompetent on a whole bunch of other things?”

The average citizen is fed up with war and inflation and the EU is: “Well, that sucks, but what can you do?” shrink “We live in a reality where Russia violates the peace, China disrupts trade, and the US challenges the international rules-based order.” European Council President Antonio Costa said recently. They are innocent bystanders and not the architects of misery inflicted upon their own citizens as a result of their own accord. It was painfully clear that he had no intention of following any rules or script—beyond whatever charade Washington wanted to display from one minute to the next. Only when Trump shows that blaming the rule book is a convenient excuse.

Israel’s ambassador to the EU says international law is no match for modern threats. How convenient for him, because Israel has been doing a lot of research in that area lately. Know what makes modern threats legal? If the EU actually insists on applying the law to Israel and Washington. It’s funny how the enforcement side is always there where the enthusiasm is selective.

A spine cannot be expected to grow overnight. But hey, baby steps. The first step apparently involves going into the back room and patting little Zelya’s (aka Vladimir Zelensky’s) backside to play games with the EU’s oil supply tap, which moves from Russia across Ukraine and into landlocked Hungary and Slovakia. After pretending they were too busy watching their favorite soap opera in the next room, the EU brass finally, “Come on man, knock it off.” It can work. Presumably they are not holding out for another addition to the national collection of golden toilets. The second step is pulling out of the Strait of Hormuz, when Trump orders them to help clean up the mess they made. They are beginning to long more openly for the days of cheap nuclear power, with Queen Ursula now calling that break-up a strategic mistake.

Look, Ursula, it’s perfectly fine to tell yourself to sound like a bold new vision of empirical reality rather than a judicious burial ground of failed theoretical experiments. Just – if you can hurry up a little, it would be better.