The "Rules-Based Order" Is.....What?

There are a lot of uses of the term "rules-based order" floating around out there.

Wauck is happy to define the term for us, picking it out of a speech given by Janet Yellen, who intends to set a lot of those rules.

....Please note the appeal to a “rules-based global order”. We have contrasted that concept in the recent past with the usual norm for international conduct: international law. The US and its vassal states—mostly NATO states—have found international law, the United Nations, and treaty obligations to be far too restrictive. This “rules-based order” is simply defined as the values of those countries—relying on American military might—that believe they can enforce their will on the rest of the world. Yellen is saying in so many words (as we will see) that existence in the world is a privilege granted—or withdrawn—by those who define that order. Preeminently, that means the US and what is known as the Anglosphere. Yellen claims that our values are to “protect peace and prosperity”. That coming from a high official in perhaps the most warlike nation to come out of WW2. Of course, it all depends on how you define “peace”.

Before we proceed, let me offer a link to Karl Denninger’s latest, in which he explains the ways in which the US ignores the NATO treaty structure, established international law, and the United Nations in pursuit of its own defined and enforced “rules-based order”: NATO Is Invalid And The Nations In It Deserve What They Get. KD doesn’t mention the “rules-based order”, but that’s really what it’s all about....

Only about 70 years ago, someone published a book called "The Ugly American."

They had no idea.......