Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman acknowledges as much in an editorial on the subject, writing, “America’s own actions are undermining vital parts of the rules-based order.” What’s more, Rachman observes that the rules-based international order is “a deeply uninspiring concept,” “a phrase that means nothing to a normal person.”

The issue with citing rules is that the United States frequently breaks them. “The 100 percent tariffs that the Biden administration has imposed on Chinese electric vehicles are virtually impossible to reconcile with [World Trade Organization] rules on trade,” Rachman notes.

“It scarred my lungs,” said Mark Ely, a 63-year-old retired Air Force technician. “I got cysts on my liver… I started having lipomas, tumors inside my body I had to remove. My lining in my bladder was shed.”

“Discontinuing the work done at the Range would be against the national interest,” concluded the assessment. “The Range could in principle be decommissioned, but the cost would be great… The environmental costs inherent in the work are small and reasonable for the benefits received.”

“There's a reason reporting military losses in Ukraine as illegal and access to the front is strictly restricted. Ukriane is lying about the vast death toll. And Western Client media is complying”, as per the stunned journalist’s X post.

“Right now, the Russians are dictating the place, the time, the intensity and the tempo of military operations,” he said.