He just gave a license to Xi, Putin, and every other tinpot tyrant out there to violate international law and fuck with their regional rivals. “We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.” Do you want to live in a world like that? Shit, do you want to live in a town or neighborhood like that? Does that sound like a safe place to live? Were you the schoolyard bully who took other kids' lunch money and never learned your lesson? Is that why you have a hard-on for stealing another country's primary natural resource and means for improving the lives of its citizenry? Because all of that is what you're asking for: A shitty ghetto where everyone's trying to swipe each other's shit at the end of a gun. When the rule of law dies, the rule of the gun arrives. BOLVERK