The End of Western Legitimacy

How the West dismantled its own rules

Kazuhiro Hayashida on how the West dismantled its own rules and legitimized Russia.

For many years, the West has used norms such as the “international order” and the “rules-based world” to legitimize its own actions while declaring the actions of others illegitimate. However, when intervening in Venezuela, it effectively proclaimed that there is no inter…