You're both right because you're talking about local laws and GP is talking about the post-war order, which is held together by American hegemony. It's not ment

You're both right because you're talking about local laws and GP is talking about the post-war order, which is held together by American hegemony. It's not mentioned in the article, but people have argued that Nixon (who has a lot in common with Trump in general) held things together basically the same way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory