President Trump threatens the UK's BBC with a $1 billion lawsuit for what Mr Trump's legal team claim was the BBC using "false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements" that may have interfered with his election chances.

But now the same President Trump is asking Israel to pardon Netanyahu in relation to various cases being brought against the Israeli president in Israel, in a clear attempt to interfere with the Israeli judicial process.

This is the international rules-based order we are always lectured being about: Our rules, your order.

Usually we are being lectured by lawyer-leaders like UK PM Keir Starmer who tells us he knows what the definition of genocide is while apparently being unable to see one unfolding right in front of his eyes.

To these people, the written word always trumps reality.

Interference has always been the name of the game to exert infleunce and get what you want.

The CIA, the FSB, MI6 are romanticized as 'spying' agencies but in reality are nothing more than grubby interference agencies using whatever means they can to get what they want. Often their interference is terminal.

Unlike interferons that are released as a defensive reponse to viruses in the body, these interferons are the virus.