{"id":9792,"date":"2026-03-06T16:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/?p=9792"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:59:59","slug":"a-new-world-order-where-might-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/sdgs-2\/a-new-world-order-where-might-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"A New World Order Where Might is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Thalif Deen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNITED NATIONS (IPS)\u00a0– <\/strong>As the build-up for a proposed \u201cnew world order\u201d continues, a lingering question remains: will the country with the most powerful military reign supreme?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United Nations remains politically impotent. The UN charter is in tatters. The sovereignty of nation states and their territorial integrity have been reduced to political mockery. And the law of the jungle prevails\u2014be it Palestine, Ukraine, Venezuela or Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly\u2019s eightieth session in 2025. Credit: UN Photo\/Evan Schneider.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

What\u2019s next: Colombia? Cuba? Greenland? North Korea?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The widespread condemnation of the ongoing conflicts \u2013 including charges of war crimes and genocide\u2014 has continue to fall on deaf ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council that under Article 2 of the UN Charter, all member states shall \u201crefrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is anybody out there listening?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norman Solomon, executive director, Institute for Public Accuracy and national director, RootsAction.org, told IPS killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can\u2019t match. Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reliance on overwhelming air power is key to what the U.S. is doing in tandem with Israel. Bombing from the skies while not attacking with ground forces is the ultimate way of killing without suffering many casualties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This reduces political blowback at home in a political and media culture that values American lives but sees the lives of \u201cothers\u201d as readily expendable, he pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis flagrant war of shameless aggression, launched by the United States and Israel, cannot be contained \u2014 much less rolled back \u2014 by the typical diplomatic euphemisms and caution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. and Israeli governments, said Solomon, are too completely run by psychopathic leaders who adhere only to the \u201cprinciple\u201d that might makes right. If ever there were a time that the vaunted \u201cinternational community\u201d should step up and confront an alliance of reckless outlaw governments, this is it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European allies of the United States, he said, should stop their cowardly vagueness and finally step up to demand a halt to this aggression that is setting the Middle East tinderbox on fire. The EU should be threatening huge countermeasures against the United States and Israel unless that pair of sociopathic governments immediately halts their assault on Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Map of Middle East<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cPlaying evasive games with Washington makes the leaders in London, Paris, Berlin and elsewhere accomplices to methodical ongoing war crimes\u201d, declared Solomon, author of \u201cWar Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, the US-Israeli act of aggression against Iran was undertaken in violation of international law and the UN Charter, as they exercised use of force without authorization from the UN Security Council (UNSC) or without a demonstrated threat to their security that would trigger the right to self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe attack came amid ongoing nuclear talks between the US and Iran and just hours after Oman\u2019s Foreign Minister \u2013 a key mediator in the negotiations \u2013 shared details on progress achieved and announced that a breakthrough was near. The attack also mirrors the recent unlawful actions<\/a> undertaken by the US in Venezuela on 3 January, culminating in the kidnapping of the head of state and setting in motion profound uncertainty for the region and the global order.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Geneva-based UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, said it is deeply concerned about the escalation of conflict in the Middle East and its impact on civilians and further displacement in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany affected countries already host millions of refugees and internally displaced people. Further violence risks overwhelming humanitarian capacities and placing additional pressure on host communities\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe echo the UN Secretary-General\u2019s urgent call for dialogue and de-escalation, respect for human rights, the protection of civilians and full adherence to international law\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Jennings, President of Conscience International, told IPS the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran was misguided, illegal, and based on lies. It will retard, not advance, any future nuclear agreement, perhaps for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was illegal, he pointed out, because it violates both the US constitution and international law as enshrined in the UN Charter. It was based on lies because the nuclear watchdog groups have clearly indicated in essence that \u201cThere\u2019s nothing to see here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump regularly claims that June\u2019s joint \u201cOperation Midnight Hammer\u201d obliterated Iran\u2019s nuclear capability, yet his weak case for the current \u201cOperation Epic Fury\u201d war rests on the idea that perhaps someday in the future Iran might get a bomb. Several US administrations have worked diplomatically to prevent that, yet Trump tore the agreement up\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump claims to be limited by no law, constitution, or the UN Charter. Guided only by his own morality, as he said recently, he followed Israel obediently in launching a massive war against a sleeping country of 92 million people, said Jennings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll the while, his amateur diplomats were negotiating deceptively for a compromise like Imperial Japan did in the run-up to the WW II Pearl Harbor attack. Ask the parents of the more than l00 schoolgirls killed on the first horrifying day of joint US-Israel bomb attacks at Minaj, Iran, and they will probably not see Mr. Trump as particularly moral\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

George W. Bush called himself \u201cThe Decider, so he foolishly decided to take the US into two unwinnable wars that most politicians in Washington, and even Trump himself, now consider monumental mistakes. Trump campaigned vigorously on keeping the US out of mistaken Middle East wars that became \u201cForever Wars,\u201d said Jennings.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Thalif Deen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cYet here he is being pulled around by the nose by Mr. Netanyahu. According to a classic rule when launching a war, one must recognize that two things cannot be changed: one is history and the other is geography. It is stunning that the leader of the United States is cavalier about going to war without understanding that or clearly stating the mission\u2019s purpose or end game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pundits and TV reporters are calling the attack on Iran \u201ca war of choice,\u201d said Jennings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy not call it what it really is\u2013a war of naked aggression? Nobody knows when will it end. Trump\u2019s claim that the war will be over in a few days is a cruel joke. The other side gets a vote. Iran celebrated its 2,500th anniversary in 1971. Maybe people who have been around so long know a few things about survival,\u201d declared Jennings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INPS Japan\/ IPS UN Bureau Report<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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