In fact, the US itself has violated the rules and norms of the LIO through its interventions in Latin America, NATO’s military intervention against Serbia in 1999, its invasion of Iraq in 2003, its support to colour revolutions, etc. Thus, the LIO has been neither rules-based nor orderly. Instead, it has often submitted itself to the rules and might of the West or “benign hegemony” of the US. This is not to say that the LIO has been useless. In fact, it has helped maintain a certain amount of global stability, helped countries prosper and lifted millions of people out of poverty. But Trump’s disdain for what this order stands for is just the latest challenge to it.