The Former President's Policies Constitute a Risk to Civilization.
The domestic and foreign strategies – ranging from the attempted coup in the past to latest actions and threats – weaken both national and global legal frameworks. The implications are broader.
These actions jeopardize the very concept of a civilized world.
The ethical foundation of a functioning society is to forestall the stronger from harming and taking advantage of the weaker. Without this, we would be permanently immersed in a brutish war where only the fittest prevails.
This principle is embedded of the Declaration and Constitution. This is also the foundation of the modern framework of international relations championed by the America, emphasizing multilateralism, popular sovereignty, fundamental freedoms, and the legal authority.
However, it is a vulnerable ideal, easily violated by those who would exploit their authority. Preserving it requires that the those in charge have enough integrity to avoid seeking immediate gains, and that the rest of us ensure they answer for their actions if they don't.
Unchecked strength does not make right. It makes for instability, chaos, and conflict.
Whenever entities that are richer and more powerful target and use those that are weaker, the fabric of society weakens. If such aggression are not contained, the structure collapses. If not stopped, the world can fall into instability and violence. History provides ample precedent.
Today, we live in a international landscape with deepening divides. Political and economic power are more concentrated than in modern history. This encourages the privileged to exploit the weaker because they feel untouchable.
The wealth of a small group of billionaires is difficult to fathom. The influence of major corporations in technology, energy, and aerospace extends over numerous countries. AI is poised to further concentrate economic and political clout to a greater degree. The military might of the world's largest nations is unprecedented in recorded history.
Empowered by political allies and a pliant high court, the executive office has been made into the supreme and answerable-to-none instrument of state power in history.
Put it all together and you see the looming crisis.
An unbroken thread ties past transgressions to current menaces. Each were premised on the arrogance of absolute power.
One observes a similar pattern in other global contexts: in military conflicts, in strategic threats, and in the global depredation by massive conglomerates.
But, unfettered might does not establish right. It fosters instability, revolution, and bloodshed.
Historical evidence demonstrates that frameworks designed to check the powerful also protect them. Without such constraints, their endless appetite for greater influence and riches in time cause their collapse – along with their corporations, nations, or empires. And pave the way for international catastrophe.
This kind of contempt for legal order will haunt international stability – and the very idea of civilization – for the foreseeable future.
