When Scholz mentioned at the SDP congress that the principle of inviolability of borders applies to every state, he came very close to the only valid foundation of the international order, which is international law, in which it is clearly stated that respect for territorial integrity is a conditio sine qua non for ensuring and maintaining normal international relations. Thus, this principle indeed applies to all states, including Syria, Iraq, Libya (and other countries in the Middle East), as well as, last but not least, Serbia.
No state has the right to arbitrarily appropriate the territory of other states, so the USA cannot arbitrarily appropriate, for example, Greenland and take it away from Denmark. However, this is no obstacle for the USA because the "rules-based international order" is merely an American private interpretation of "rules," which are intended to be imposed on other states, for which the foundation of the regulation of international relations is international law. In this sense, the USA can afford special "rules" or exceptions for Greenland, Serbia, Iraq, Libya, etc.
Because such "regulation" of international relations is illegal and literally a criminal act, it inevitably leads to paradoxical situations where it is evident that the European or specifically German "interpretation" of "rules" in international relations is in obvious collision with the American “interpretation."
This dilemma of which "version of the rules" applies to specific cases can be resolved by Western countries only if they publicly acknowledge that the foundation of regulating international relations is exclusively valid international law and that the interventions by NATO and Western countries in the cases of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc., were carried out unlawfully. In that case the West should face all consequences or acknowledge responsibility for the violation of international law which, among other things, protects states from interference or intervention in the internal affairs of states as well as territorial integrity.
Western countries have violated all principles of international law, which are legally protected values in international relations, and therefore they must accept responsibility and face the consequences of this acceptance of responsibility.
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