Rules Based

[degringolade]

 

 Impressionism / Samuel Mutzner/ Springtime in Balcic

I suppose that we as a country and as individuals think that rules are critical to living.  This supposition is correct in the sense that following rules is essential to a healthy society.

But the rules that folks are laying down are getting progressively more transparent in their attempts to benefit the rulemakers at the expense of the rule-followers.  

The most transparent of these myriad attempts by the PMC here in the once-central and essential country is the “rules-based international order”.  This was always an Anglo-American construct that we suckered Europe into thinking it would benefit them and then foisted it onto the rest of the world.  Worked for a while.  It’s falling apart now.

This is a resource war.  Not gonna be fun and it looks like we stand to lose even if we win.