What is this ‘rules-based international order’ that Western elites keep talking about? America, and its allies, love to invoke the code words for ‘you are free to do as we tell you’ ‘our way is the only way’

What is this ‘rules-based international order’ that Western elites keep talking about? America, and its allies, love to invoke the code words for ‘you are free to do as we tell you’ ‘our way is the only way’
