Legal experts are pretending that the Law of Armed Conflict still functions. They talk about progress and frameworks. The reality is that these rules are ignored the moment a bullet is fired.

The legal structures of the twentieth century are being dismantled by modern violence. Sovereignty is a myth. Accountability is a joke.

The reality includes these depressing features.

• States treat civilian death as a statistic.
• Autonomous weapons render human judgment obsolete.
• International courts lack the power to stop major nations.
• War is becoming a series of unpunished violations.

There is no way to fix a system that was destroyed. We are just watching the end of order. The lawyers are just documenting the decay.