[pessimizer]

Those are treaties that the US lobbied into existence, and can ignore out of existence. The reason they're not going anywhere is that the people who own the rights to everything want it that way, and pay people in government to keep it that way.

[account42]

It's like the local EU politicians saying they have no choice to implement an unpopular law due to EU regulations when their own party took part in getting those regulations passed in the first place. Always good to have a scape goat to avoid accountability.