Rules-based world order?

WITH the Russia-Ukraine war entering the third year (not to mention mass massacres elsewhere), an overwhelming question needs asking. Is the international community really interested in a rules-based world order? The vast majority of the 193 nations of the world are, but the tyranny of the minority makes sure that it never gets done. The League of Nations promised the world, well, the world, but it was killed off because it didn’t serve the needs of a mighty few. The United Nations came to replace it, but again a few made sure that it would only be for them. They sliced the UN into the all-bark-and-no-bite General Assembly and the law-making Security Council, where veto-wielding nations…