Talk of the Town: A superpower gone rogue
January 20, 2026
Comments on “A superpower gone rogue,” (Flea Market of Ideas by Joel Ruiz Butuyan, 1/15/26) via https://opinion.inquirer.net:
America is meddling in everyone’s business; playing the bully.
Cartoonist
A superpower that normalizes unilateral force, ignores treaty obligations, and treats international law as advisory has crossed from leadership into delinquency—‘rogue’ is a legal characterization, not a slur. When state power is exercised without proportionality, consent, or accountability, it ceases to be order-preserving and becomes legally indistinguishable from coercion.
Juan Tamadachi
The US has been going rogue since the 1950s.
Monk Manuel
