The rust spots always show, eventually, on the ‘iron law’ of might |
Countries such as Canada may have no choice but to realign themselves if U.S. President Donald Trump intends to dictate from his office, based on his 'morality,' which smaller nations will be granted sovereignty and which won’t.Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Last week, after the United States sent troops into Caracas to capture Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan dictator, the Trump administration made some shocking boasts about American power in the 21st century.
U.S. President Donald Trump said that the international laws meant to prevent powerful nations from preying on weaker ones are irrelevant to him, and that the only thing that constrains his use of dominant military force is “my own morality.”
One of his chief advisers, Stephen Miller, was just as blunt. “We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties,” he said. “But we live in a world, in the real world […] that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since........