| The U.S. has become a dictatorial rogue state April 10, 2026  Donald J. Trump has shown no such scruples. He considers international law nothing more than a trifling impediment by which the weak try to drag down the strong. He boasts that he didn’t even bother to consult the U.N. when pursuing his trumped-up peace plans and creating his laughably ill-named “Board of Peace.” He certainly didn’t consider international law recently when he bombed Nigeria, seized Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, and threatened to annex Greenland. He may be the first American president to treat international law as if it were as fictional as intergalactic law. By contrast, the only principle that Trump now invokes in his foreign policy is the infamous law of the jungle. He believes that power — its threat and its exercise — is all that matters for apex predators like the United States (and himself). The rest is just the chittering of potential prey. |
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