Accurate. The US does not always play the game. For instance it doesn't acknowledge the International Criminal Court

siggy47

I took an international relations class one time, where the professor just ignored the textbook on this, and explained that "international law" isn't really a thing, and can't be for lack of an enforcement angle. It's rather a phrase that we (Americans) use to make things we don't like sound worse ("they're violating international law"), while we will always just "act in our national interest."

 realpolitik, but it's just objectively the case that that's how it is. Russia uses the same rhetoric ("America is violating international law 😡") when the USA does things it doesn't like.

Personally, I would like it if states stopped treating people like children who need to be bullshitted, but I know they can't as that's foundational to their ability to function

Politics_And_Law

Maduro Capture Violates International Law

I took an international relations class one time, where the professor just ignored the textbook on this, and explained that "international law" isn't really a thing, and can't be for lack of an enforcement angle. It's rather a phrase that we (Americans) use to make things we don't like sound worse ("they're violating international law"), while we will always just "act in our national interest." 

I don't *like* realpolitik, but it's just objectively the case that that's how it is. Russia uses the same rhetoric ("America is violating international law 😡") when the USA does things it doesn't like. 

Personally, I would like it if states stopped treating people like children who need to be bullshitted, but I know they can't as that's foundational to their ability to function