The International Rules-Based Order

And why it must be deconstructed

I usually wait a day or two before commenting on current affairs, because the first act is usually only the start of the story; to make headlines for one narrative or another. It’s like Trump with his endless executive orders. Those were good for headlines, some were just to reinstate the executive orders Biden wrote to abolish Trump’s executive orders from the first term. But they don’t mean anything significant unless he can work with the congress to ensure that they are also legislated into a law he can sign. Go ahead, abolish USAID, but until the congress removes the funding for the program it will fill with our tax dollars the same way it did under Biden. Trump can stop spending on all sorts of programs, but the money remains tied to that program until either he can convince the Supreme Court to uphold his impoundment claim, or the congress can reallocate that money to something else, like the debt.

I’m not a Washington insider, so I don’t know exactly what happened in the Oval Office presser last week. I don’t know if Zelensky’s purported attempt to sign a mineral deal with the United States was derailed by Keir Starmer, who signed a 100-year security and minerals deal with Zelensky on January 17, 2025, just days before Trump’s inauguration, or not. Part of the theatrics might have been caused by the meeting Zelensky had with Obama sychophants and opposition US Senators prior to meeting with Trump. I also don’t know if that meeting was inspired by globalist elites determined to keep some funding from the war flowing into their pockets, or not.

What I can do is wade through the facts and try and discern the importance to the American people. There is now a clear division between Europe and the United States. Not only did Norway, a member of NATO, refuse to refuel an American submarine, Keir Starmer formed a European coalition to continue supporting Ukraine in the war with Russia, putting the value and structure of NATO on the line. All of this in response to the fiery presser between Trump, Zelensky and Vance. It feels orchestrated by both sides.

When I look at Ukraine, I see the fingerprints of the globalists all over it. That many of those globalists are Americans doesn’t change that. The United States suffers from the fact that its treasury has been looted for decades to support globalist causes like global warming/climate change, a criminal alien invasion of the West, the propagation of anti-family/pro-LGBT and transsexual narratives designed to destroy the nuclear family and distance children from the influence of parents. A feature of the communist playbook.

The International Rules-Based Order (IRBO) is crumbling. The IRBO was established in the post WWII years and leaned heavily on international organizations, largely to diminish Soviet Union power and prestige. Though it was designed to resist the spread of communism, it came to be used to control and manipulate the United States and siphon off trillions from the US Treasury. All of this is now being exposed by DOGE and Trump. But cutting off the money flow to these organizations and the NGOs that support the globalist agenda has a price that the US will now pay.

This is the larger war symbolized by what is seen as a Second Civil War in America. Within the bureaucracy that aims to defy Trump’s efforts to cut spending and end foreign interventions, there’s a globalist fingerprint. While outwardly Trump tries to establish a post IRBO world, something he must do to save the United States economy, he must confront the internal enemies embedded within the government.

The forces aligned against Trump and the people who voted for him are global, but the most pernicious are within the US bureaucracy. They are the fount of all funding for the globalists and are backed by more than half of both the House and the Senate. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the treasury is funding both sides of the conflict. When you want to know why nothing is happening that you expect, that’s the reason, but they’re facing a different Trump in 2025. Trump knows that he will not survive unless he changes everything. Any failure to confront the bureaucracy or the globalists will leave him exposed either during the 2026 midterms or post presidency.

He has the power and he has to use it. We haven’t seen enough of that, yet. Strong words don’t equal change. Deportations are lagging due to institutional resistance, something that cannot be put off any longer. These issues need to be resolved immediately, but so must the global threat.

The United States is at a deflection point, where it will either go one way or another. The first of these was the Revolutionary War, when the thirteen British colonies sought independence. That was one of four such instances in American history. While different people will see different deflection points along the way, for me, this is the fifth such deflection point. This is the deconstruction of the International Rules-Based Order, developed largely by the US, that must be deconstructed before it strangles the nation. Just as with the Revolutionary War, the public is split on whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. The good news is that more people are starting to see that all of their tax dollars work against their individual interests.

To counter this, the globalists who thrive under the IRBO, exert pressure to make this deconstruction appear unpopular, also with taxpayer dollars. Cut the funding and the opposition disappears. We know this and they know this and that is the internal battle being waged and it’s as important as any kinetic battle. One has to stop funding their enemy if they intend to win.

Everything that will appear in the headlines will be a part of this from now on. I encourage the reader to evaluate what they read in this context. Europe is captured by the globalists and while I look fondly on domestic resistance in the UK, EU member states and such, the resilience and determination of the American people will decide the outcome. If Trump can marginalize and distance the US from Europe, it has to be done. As J.D. Vance told Keir Starmer, if they don’t hold the same values as the United States, they are not allies.

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