While that sounds great and is true on paper, it sets quite the obvious precedent for every other nation to follow. Why the hypocrisy and double standards on Russia and China, then? If international law should never take priority over national interests and sovereignty then why bleat about Russia’s putative “breaking of international law”, putting on theatrical virtue signaling performances of the enshrined ‘hallowedness’ of these ‘inviolable’ statutes? But everything is clear: it’s why the U.S. itself is strategically clever in never using the designation when it applies to itself or allies. For Russia and China it’s the hallowed ‘international law’, for the Atlanticist Empire and its putrid dependents and vassals, it’s “Rules Based Order”, which allows them to semantically skirt the inherent hypocrisy.