The 'international rules-based system' has always been nothing. It was the hubris of the west with its position as hegemon thinking they can impose an ‘'international rules-based system' in the first place and make no mistake that’s what it was. The likes of Russia and China don’t care about it at all, they never have, they just do whatever they want regardless. They just hold the west to it and point out every time we don’t follow it, but the truth is no one follows it when its not convenient. The likes of Russia and China just use it as a weapon against us and they can do this because any attempt to implement such a global order depends entirely on the will and ability to enforce it which the west naively thought it could do with sanctions and not bombs. Its time to let the whole thing wither and die.
This is clear as day with Israel and Russia. We, the west, held Russia to some standard and they didn’t care at all lol, neither did anyone else, now we want to hold Israel, our ally, to the same standard where it will have effect. Thats why the US wants to stop it and I can’t blame them. Holding only ourselves to account only weakens us.