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6/10/2018, "European Union President Donald Tusk worries about the
Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama legacy being dismantled: “What worries me most
is the fact that the rules-based international order is being challenged, quite surprisingly, not by the usual suspects, but by its main architect and guarantor: the US.”"
6/10/18, "EU President Donald Tusk Worries About “New World Order” Being Dismantled–The Peasants are Revolting," tcth, sundance (Pal, challenges to the so-called Rules-Based International Order were noticed at least 3 years ago).
Question: Exactly who in the US was the "guarantor" of a so-called "rules-based international order" whose "rules" apparently haven't been updated since World War II?:
"Just as the current order was constructed with the clear aim of avoiding a repeat of the nationalism,
totalitarianism and conflict of the 1930s and 1940s, a modernization
effort should reflect a reforming agenda intended to tackle the problems
of the 2000s and 2010s. Who decides this agenda, and what it should contain, remain open questions."
Source:
2015: "Challenges to the Rules-Based International Order," chathamhouse.org (Chatham House is UK's Royal Institute in International Affairs. Queen Elizabeth is its patron)
"Economic and political upheavals are emboldening challengers to the rules-based international system, and to the liberal Western values it
embodies....
The danger today is that this questioning of US global leadership has opened the space for other countries to pursue a ‘might is right’ approach to
their own policy priorities....
The longevity of the
current international system may have led to the assumption that it was
in some way the natural order of things, requiring only occasional
repair and defence against particular challengers. This has bred
complacency.
Many aspects of the [US led international] order are in fact revolutionary,
disruptive and disorderly. They provoke violent and understandable
resistance from those who see themselves as champions of their own
established order, based on different rules....
These fears do not provide a case for the West
changing its approach, withdrawing or accepting cultural relativism.
However-the West must recognize how radical its agenda can be, realize the depth of the opposition it may provoke, and sometimes tailor its
policies accordingly....
Just as the current order was constructed with the clear aim of avoiding a repeat of the nationalism,
totalitarianism and conflict of the 1930s and 1940s, a modernization
effort should reflect a reforming agenda intended to tackle the problems
of the 2000s and 2010s.
Who decides this agenda, and what it should contain, remain open questions.
The West has the opportunity to
take the initiative, to decide now what sort of revised rules it would
like to establish, and how far it is willing to take into account the
interests of its rivals or alternatively to fight for its own
priorities. If the leading Western powers do not take this opportunity--and at the moment there is little sign that they will--there are now
plenty of others who might."
London Conference 2015 - Background Paper - Session One.pdf
"Chatham House delivers independent, policy-relevant analysis and new
ideas to decision-makers around the world, much of it achieved through
government briefings, high-level roundtables and conferences, testimony
to parliamentary committees and dissemination of the institute's
research."
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Comment: I can't find any record that US taxpayers agreed to finance a global police force any time in the past 70 years.
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Monday, June 11, 2018
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