The Former President's Approach Constitute a Threat to Civilized Society.
His national and international policies β including the effort to overturn the election five years ago to current moves and warnings β erode not only domestic and international legal frameworks. The implications are broader.
They jeopardize the fundamental meaning of a civilized world.
A moral purpose of a functioning society is to forestall the stronger from attacking and exploiting the vulnerable. Failing that, we could find ourselves trapped in a state of nature where survival of the strongest wins.
This concept is central of the Declaration and Constitution. This is also the heart of the postwar international order advocated by the America, which stresses collective action, democratic governance, individual liberties, and the supremacy of law.
However, it is a vulnerable principle, frequently ignored by those who choose to misuse their power. Upholding it requires that the influential have enough integrity to avoid seeking short-term wins, and that society hold them accountable should they falter.
Unchecked strength does not make right. It leads to turmoil, disruption, and conflict.
Whenever people or corporations or countries that are richer and more powerful target and use those that are not, the fabric of society weakens. If such aggression are allowed to continue, the fabric unravels. If not stopped, the world can plunge into disorder and conflict. It has happened before.
Today, we live in a global community grown vastly more unequal. Influence and wealth are held by fewer hands than in recent memory. This invites the powerful to exploit the less fortunate because they perceive themselves as untouchable.
The resources of certain billionaires is difficult to fathom. The power of major corporations in technology, energy, and aerospace spans numerous countries. Advanced technology is poised to consolidate economic and political clout further. The offensive capability of the leading countries is unprecedented in human history.
Empowered by political allies and a sympathetic judicial body, the highest office has been transformed into the most powerful and unaccountable agent of the state in recent memory.
Combine these factors and you see the looming crisis.
A clear connection ties past transgressions to ongoing provocations. Both were based on the arrogance of absolute power.
There is parallel dynamics in international affairs: in territorial invasions, in expansive ambitions, and in the global depredation by massive conglomerates.
Yet, unfettered might does not establish right. It produces fragility, revolution, and war.
History shows that frameworks designed to limit the powerful also safeguard them. Without such constraints, their relentless pursuit for more power and wealth eventually bring them down β along with their enterprises, countries, or domains. And risk global conflict.
This blatant contempt for legal order will plague international stability β and the very idea of a rules-based order β for a long time.
