The US has got it wrong Rogue States are not outside its borders; the award-winning Rogue State is within its borders. This a “great” achievement under Trump, who can be awarded as the most eloquent, and experienced person on “being Rogue”. The US President often states he is a man for peace, but his actions speak otherwise, from 2025, the US President has made it clear that being “Rogue” and carrying out terror acts is central to his foreign relationship.
The US Congress through its
silence supports the US President, who from the time of taking office last
year, till now, as the President of the US has been solely responsible for
initiating war in Iran, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria and Venezuela.
This is an outstanding feat for the US President. The US President has been
generous at dropping bombs and missiles across the globe, to free citizens in
different nations or to carry out SMART, EVIDENCE FREE and Out of Court
initiatives for drug trade control. The US President takes pride in his war
crimes, mass murder and terror acts and is vocal about it to the world, and yet
the US Congress continues to avoid its constitutional right over President’s action-packed
governance, and hence is by law, complicit to the US President’s war crimes. At
the best it comes to give the US President grace period to offer a legal
perspective for his action, the grace period is time give to the Rogue
President to break any rule and misinterpret or reinterpret his capacity to
overreach domestically and internationally. But, should there be a way for
globe to hold the US and its Congress along with the US President accountable
for the war crimes and acts of terror all under false claims of Security
concerns for the US.
According to the United States
National Security [1], Numerous kinds of offences against the international
community render a Nation a Rogue state. Overall, these states reject
international law and the conventions of international community, and abhor
international accountability. Often their actions are not predictable as they
ignore traditionally recognised patterns. The conditions that can render States
as Rogue include:
1. Nations that deliberately or illegitimately harm their neighbours; (US President used threats on many different occasions about forcefully wanting to make Canada the 51st State of United States, the President continued his bullying tactics via social media and interviews with the press, even after the government of Canada made it clear they are not appreciative of his gesture and took offence to the same. The same process was repeated with the Greenland).
2.
Nations that deliberately and consistently
flaunt international laws, convention, and norms; (the US President has not
been partial about this with regard to seven countries that he attacked; all of
them were given a fair share of being victims of war crimes and terror acts. In
fact, he has gone on record to state he does not believe in domestic or
international law but rather is guided by his own personal belief system [2].
Flaunting international law, conventions and norms is not exclusive to Trump Presidency other Presidents have also done the same but rarely in the scale and magnitude that President Trump thought to be normal. The US and as an add on Israel assumes to have an inalienable right to bomb countries that they perceive to be a threat in the future, there is no evidence to substantiate the claims, no discussion held and at times the attack happens when the country concerned believes that diplomatic interaction is working and is caught off guard, this is complete violation of basic norms, the same is not even considered by US or Israel. They take pride in their actions for being able outsmart others through deceit and sleight of hand.
If it was any other country, the entire international community along with UN would be having discussion about how to sanction the country and to what extent. Certain countries may go a step further, for not only would they be implementing UN Sanctions, they might have their own separate set of sanctions, especially the US and EU. Yet, when US bombed eight countries in course of less than a year, there is no move to create any collective action towards holding it accountable. Why? There are no sanctions against US or Israel, there is no attempt to term it as terror acts, these acts are as violent as many other terror acts committed by non-state actors. In fact, the US President has the luxury of continuing to bomb any boat he or his team perceives to be carrying drugs for weeks and months. The US President has a smirk when he states: “see, now no boats are there out in the international waters”. He is so disconnected with his role as a leader of a country, and yet the doctors in the White House find nothing to worry about. It appears the institutions for governance in are fine with considering the arsenal of US Military industry and its forces as toys for the entertainment and benefit of US President’s -Trump Reality!
Which other terrorist would be able sustain his brutality on international waters without any one raising protest about it. What happens to the families who lost their loved one and at times the sole earning member in the family, there is no move to hold US President accountable for the same.
Yet, no Sanctions on the US President. The great President thought it is apt to Sanction Judges at ICC for standing for Justice and Staff at UN for upholding the law. Yet, no Sanctions on the US or the US President. Why?
Given this reality, why should anyone believe in
Justice or the capacity of international community to ensure or facilitate the
same. Within the international community - Justice is dead!
3.
Nations that persist in acting unilaterally,
without the support of community of nations; are called Rogue States.
Classification of a country as Rogue is a favourite past time for United States, in fact most countries have been classified so, at one time or other, by the US are North Korea, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan (Taliban Administration), Venezuela, Cuba, Sudan, and Nicaragua. There is one common factor for these countries, they are all rich in natural resources, which America would love to a say in its utilization.
Under the Presidency of Trump, the international relations got rid of nuances in interaction, perception and setting goals for international relations. This is natural for the President is found of declaring the actions to be taken through social media post, especially Truth Social, rather than going through US Congress.
The President is not subtle about his desire, to satisfy the same-
c) It is unclear as to what America First means for the President, does it mean he can use the tech world to interfere in sovereign reality of other nations. If so, countries should think again before being dependent on American tech companies. As US proves it again and again, a US President can just ignore or rewrite his powers based on exaggerated claims of security concerns. Which means US would be a democracy with no rule of law, or focus on rule of law would be determined by the personality of the President.
c) To get his way through US President Tump may claim
to have technology that does not exist, for example claiming to have
non-existent technology to know where something exists underground, from air.
On hearing such claims by the US President, it is human nature, then to protect
those locations, pure monitoring of sudden movement will disclose locations to
Americans, without them needing to have any prior knowledge of the same. This
also creates a fake image of US and Israel being formidable forces difficult to
reckon with, while all that US and Israel do is to be sly and to know how to manipulate
human nature.
Reference
1. Sage Reference-Encyclopedia of United States
National Security -Rogue State
https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/nationalsecurity/chpt/rogue-state#
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