🌍⚠️ Lee Hsien Loong: “In the Future World, Small States Will Be in Trouble”

Singapore’s Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivered a blunt warning at a public forum: the global order is becoming far more dangerous for small countries.

His concern wasn’t abstract.

He pointed directly to U.S. military intervention in Venezuela, arguing that such actions don’t just affect one country or one conflict, but reshape how the entire international system works over the long term.

From the perspective of small states like Singapore, this is the core risk.

If powerful countries normalize unilateral military intervention, the rules-based order weakens. And once rules weaken, size and power matter far more than law.

Lee stressed that this is exactly what small countries depend on: international law, the UN Charter, and predictable norms that restrain the strong from acting purely on force.

Singapore, he said, views military intervention in other countries with serious concern, precisely because it violates those principles.

The message was clear and unusually direct.

For small states, this isn’t about choosing sides. It’s about survival in a world where rules may no longer protect the weak.

If the international system shifts toward “might makes right,” small countries don’t get a second chance to adapt.

Do you think the world is already moving away from a rules-based order, or is this still reversible?

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