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Comment by JumpCrisscross

8 hours ago

> US has vetoed UN resolutions 89 times, and ignored resolutions dozens of times

So have China and Russia. The rules-based international order has been explicitly rejected by the world’s great powers.

> whole thing is a sham and everybody knows it

There was a legitimate attempt. It had flaws. But so does any system of justice. It was ultimately done in by a combination of Russian and Chinese revanchism, American neoconservatism and global nihilism.