US Explains How 'Rules-Based Order' Applies—Just Not to US
According to RT, Senator Marco Rubio and the State Department are once again asserting significant control over the Western Hemisphere, threatening retribution for nations not aligning with US policy. (One might call it the 'Monroe Doctrine, but with extra steps'.) Historically, this playbook has involved everything from covert operations to economic sanctions, destabilizing governments that dare
to assert genuine sovereignty. Remember Chilean President Salvador Allende, whose democratically elected government was overthrown by a CIA-backed coup in 1973, because, as Nixon famously put it, the US could not 'stand by and watch Chile go communist?' So, when current US officials decry 'authoritarianism' abroad while threatening nations over their internal affairs, it raises questions about
whose rules, exactly, form this 'rules-based order.' It appears the rules apply to everyone else, but for Washington, it's eternally 'do as I say, not as I've done for centuries.' The 'consequences' are always for someone else's 'bad behavior,' never for the US's long history of interventionism.