US, Russia, China tearing down rules-based order, EUC chief Costa

European Council President António Costa on Tuesday said that the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran are driving instability across the Middle East and ushering in a new, more dangerous geopolitical era that only helps the EU’s adversaries.Addressing the EU’s diplomatic corps in Brussels, Costa said, “We know the new reality — a reality in which Russia violates peace, China disrupts trade, and the United States challenges the international rules-based order.”

EU goes after RUSSIA, CHINA and US as international rule breakers

'We live in reality where Russia violates peace, China disrupts trades and the US challenges the international rules based order' — EU Council Prez Costa pic.twitter.com/rwx16DAyxw

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Costa said, the EU wants to see Iranians gain rights and freedoms, “but freedom and human rights cannot be achieved through bombs. Only international law upholds them.” Instead, he said, the rules-based international order must be defended and “violations of international law must not be accepted, whether in Ukraine, Greenland, Latin America, Africa, in Gaza or in the Middle East.”