Liberal hypocrisy policing collapsed

Once the U.S. and allied institutions could be shamed or pressured into honoring their own stated norms (for example, self‑determination). The article argues that those informal checks have weakened, so strategic realpolitik now proceeds with far less reputational constraint. — If liberal hypocrisy no longer constrains state action, norms like self‑determination lose enforcement power and international order becomes more openly transactional.