“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks his sickening cup
Of recklessness and vanity,
Until from his heights he headlong
Plummets into the dust of hope.”
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Weighed, and found wanting.
Stand and deliver.
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception