[valcron1000]

If international law had any effect people would believe in it. You're mixing cause/effect. This situation has been going on for years and the lack of response by international organizations makes people lose all confidence in them.

[jacquesm]

It's the same with money: if people believe in it it works, if they stop believing in it it stops working.

So there is no cause and no effect, it is something mutually reinforcing.