It been that way for... 300 years?
Those with the biggest economies and/or most guns has changed a few times but the behaviours haven't and probably never will.
Those with the biggest economies and/or most guns has changed a few times but the behaviours haven't and probably never will.
And the extent of which you can do global enforcement (which is often biased and selective) is limited by the reach of your economic and military power.
Which is why the US outspends the rest of the world military powers combined and how the US and their troops have waged ilegal wars and committed numerous crimes abroad and gotten away with it despite pieces of papers saying what they're doing is bad, but their reaction was always "what are you gonna do about it?".
See how many atrocities have happened under the watch of the UN. Laws aren't real, it's the enforcement that is real. Which is why the bullies get to define the laws that everyone else has to follow because they have the monopoly on enforcement.
Well, yes. This is why people have been paying a lot of attention to what exactly "rule of law" means in the US, and what was just norms that can be discarded.