International rules

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for International Rules, the name of a code of football played in a test series between Australia and Ireland see International Rules Football.

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International rules is a rhetoric sentence used by the governments of the United States and Great Britain when pointing at countries that they regard as rogue states because of their political inclinations or because they do not voluntarily align to Washington or London's international policies.

[edit] Distortion of the expression

It should not be confused with International Law as Venezuela’s Vice Foreign Minister Pavel Rondon warned in a letter to Blair as a response to his demands that Venezuela abide by international rules: "The serious distortion in his words in confusing 'the rules of the international community' with the norms and principles of International Law has not gone unnoticed by our government," "This type of confusion has facilitated, permitted and induced the worst atrocities against the world's peoples."