Ep 98 - The Death of International Law: How We Went Back to Kings and Conquest

2026-01-26

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Can anyone tell me an answer to this following question: When was the last time "international law" actually stopped a war? Not slowed it down. Not condemned it after the fact. Actually stopped it.I'll wait.The truth is, we've been living in a fantasy. For maybe twenty, thirty years after the Cold War ended, we convinced ourselves that the world had changed. That international law mattered. That the UN meant something. That we'd evolved past conquest and power politics.We were wrong. And now we're paying for that...

Can anyone tell me an answer to this following question: When was the last time "international law" actually stopped a war? Not slowed it down. Not condemned it after the fact. Actually stopped it.

I'll wait.

The truth is, we've been living in a fantasy. For maybe twenty, thirty years after the Cold War ended, we convinced ourselves that the world had changed. That international law mattered. That the UN meant something. That we'd evolved past conquest and power politics.

We were wrong. And now we're paying for that delusion.

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00:00 - Intro

00:59 - The UN: Captured Since the 1960s

02:47 - Russia's Play: USSR 2.0

04:29 - The Thirty-Year Fantasy

05:31 - Back to Kings and Conquest

07:05 - The New Power Blocs

08:38 - Europe: The Toothless Barker

10:31 - What This Means Going Forward

12:58 - Final Thoughts

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