Greenland and western hypocrisy over the rules-based international order |
Western leaders defend the rules-based international order when it suits them, but remain largely silent as those same rules are breached by the United States and Israel. The result is a system that shields the powerful and abandons the vulnerable – most starkly in Palestine.
The white men and a few women couldn’t hide their anger over Trump threatening to take over Greenland. NATO members joined in at the horror of Trump subverting the rules-based international order (RBIO).
They were appalled at this breach of the RBIO, that Richard Marles and all right-thinking people in the West keep talking about. But these very same people – including the Australian political elite – say precious little or nothing at all when the rules are broken by the US and Israel to attack the poor and vulnerable of this world.
Greenlanders are special, but not Palestinians.
The breaches of RBIO didn’t come with Trump. The West has been breaching the rules for decades. Trump’s rule-breaking is just more gross and explicit.
Not only are we very selective in our........