TheJaggi

Rogue state meets dumb Europe: How the US and Europe are destroying their own power  By R Jagannathan Barely one year after the return of Donald Trump to the White House, the United States of America increasingly appears to fit the definition of "Rogue State", and Europe is emerging as a "dumb orphan" unable to separate its own core interests from stupid political posturing. Hegemons usually do not need to break the rules, for most rules would have been made by themselves in their interest. When they do break their own rules, they claim high principle as motivating their actions (eg, the US invasion of Iraq based on dubious intelligence, ostensibly to prevent Saddam Hussein from acquiring Weapons of Mass Destruction, or Nato's 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia without UN approval, ostensibly to prevent the Serbs from ethnically cleansing Kosovans, to name just two instances).  Usually, though, hegemons just promise something - promises they don't intend to keep ...