International law died in Korea when UN deployed nearly 2 million troops to destroy the democratic government, and in Germany where western powers completely disregarded treaties in order to resurrect 3,5 Reich. It really was more of stillborn.

What makes Greenland important is the fact that Western cohesion was built on an economic arrangement where Europe and other vassals of the United States secured their special access to world markets and resources through participation in the organized impoverishment of the rest of mankind.

For decades every act of aggression or intervention could be publicly justified as a mere extension of the sphere where freedom and democracy were proclaimed, and this convenient myth protected the alliance from all doubts regarding its own ethics. There was an implied understanding that the force and violence used on the outside world would not be turned against allies within the American sphere of influence. But now the basic situation has permanently changed. Americans are demanding a pound of flesh from the nations which accepted ideological hegemony in exchange for security and prosperity.

29 December 2023 was probably the "official" death knell for international law - South Africa took the Apartheid Nazi colony directly to court due to their genocide and with a Western entity on trial for the first time ever according to the exact same laws they purport to uphold, it now collapses in on itself.