Rules-Based International Order 1. Trump Imperialism 0 

The successful capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro emboldened Donald Trump’s administration to flaunt its belief that force, not law, governs the world. “You can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else,” Stephen Miller, top presidential aide, said on CNN, “We live in a world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.” Soon thereafter, President Donald Trump began asserting he could take ownership of Greenland by military force.