Liberal democracies remain shamefully complicit with Israel, despite its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.
Students of world politics have long understood that when it comes to the strategic interests of leading states, international law is marginalised unless it is useful in waging a propaganda war against adversaries.
Western powers never believed in a rules-based order By Richard Falk
Indeed, the United Nations was designed in ways that recognised this feature of international political life. Otherwise, giving the winners of World War II a right of veto would make no sense.