The genocide of the 21st century is a testament that the post-WWII global rules-based order is a fundamentally flawed proposition. The very phrase "rules-based" is sufficient to explain that the void deliberately created by the absence of international law was the foundational mistake. The world is now witnessing endless wars, economic hegemony, currency monopoly and an active genocide precisely because the so-called rules-based order was designed to safeguard the interests of a few. The rules themselves are self-serving, ever-changing and contingent upon the interests of those who created them.

The post-WWII institutions such as ICC, ICJ, IMF and UN are either defunct or redundant, being structurally incapable of providing inclusive global governance. The Palestinian plight for basic human rights has turned into a massacre, and yet the so-called rules-based order shows no sign of making space for Global South, which represents 70% of the world's population. The impunity bestowed upon an apartheid state by the 30% known as Global North has raised public........

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