Letter

In response to Failure to cover: A week of collective omission by the Australian media

The con of the rules-based international order

That anyone with a functioning brain cell can take seriously the ostentatious pomposity of the statements that emanate from the mouths of the servile politicians of the West, about the importance of the rules-based international order, is a tribute to the success of blatant dishonesty over patent reality .

That is bad enough but the fact is the so-called Fourth Estate, that ostentatiously promotes itself as holding power to account, simply acts as a megaphone for the barefaced failure of the West to comply even with the rules that they have just made up, let alone completely ignoring international law that they have all signed up to at the UN.

It is difficult to conceive of a system that is so utterly corrupt where those holding the powerful to account for breaching the rules are facilitating the breaking of those very same rules by those in power, by ignoring those offences.

— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041