Just a few short weeks ago, I was sitting in the United Nations listening to statements from the Trump administration emphasizing that the United States would never agree to anything that limited state sovereignty.

This assertion — echoing the recent use of sovereignty as a fig leaf by autocratic states to justify a multitude of sins against international law and, most ironically, sovereign countries — ignores the reality that any treaty or agreement signed, whether bilateral or multilateral, is such a limitation.

Donald Trump’s recent iteration of the executive-branch ritual of delivering a National Security Strategy (NSS) to Congress reimagines America’s role as the “indispensable nation” and signatory to the foundational treaties of the postwar multilateral order as a grievo

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