It is complex because international law is only based on consent and there is no authority to enforce it (at least not against the USA). So nobody can really punish this but many will adapt their procedures now in all kinds of ways and nobody knows what exactly the others will do.
It is not complex in the sense that this isn’t new. The USA always were above certain international laws, like not acknowledging the International Criminal Court. The USA have a long history of meddling in other countries. Prisoners in Guantanamo were/are a similar “cannot just put them back and apologize” situation.
After the cold war, the USA acted as the global police for a “rules-based world order” but apparently they don’t want to anymore. That isn’t even a Trump thing. Biden was also less “rules-based” than Obama, for example. Thus, we are shifting to a multi-polar world and I don’t see that shift stopping any time soon. Some say that China and Russia are “challenging” the rules-based order but in my opinion the change is also pushed on by the USA.
It is complex because international law is only based on consent and there is no authority to enforce it (at least not against the USA). So nobody can really punish this but many will adapt their procedures now in all kinds of ways and nobody knows what exactly the others will do.
It is not complex in the sense that this isn’t new. The USA always were above certain international laws, like not acknowledging the International Criminal Court. The USA have a long history of meddling in other countries. Prisoners in Guantanamo were/are a similar “cannot just put them back and apologize” situation.
After the cold war, the USA acted as the global police for a “rules-based world order” but apparently they don’t want to anymore. That isn’t even a Trump thing. Biden was also less “rules-based” than Obama, for example. Thus, we are shifting to a multi-polar world and I don’t see that shift stopping any time soon. Some say that China and Russia are “challenging” the rules-based order but in my opinion the change is also pushed on by the USA.