Some countries block(how? Dunno, internet dark magic) some sites/domains so switching vpn locations solves the problem. If your country blocks a domain and you use a vpn server from the same country you wouldn’t be able to access it anyway, if you change the country the server is in you get around the block. This is one reason why VPNs are sold as an anti-censorship tool.

In these times international law and war crimes are written in toilet paper, unless something changes drastically

Confidently bad at everything

Do you by chance mean Lebensraum? I have heard of it before but I don’t remember the context exactly